skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tech enthusiasts always seem to lack education around general civics and law. But it's especially bad in the area of tech-beanie-baby fanboys who pontificate around subjects by acting totally disingenuous or just willfully ignorant. Their cult-like excitement over a merkle tree with a distributed consensus/integrity algorithm is truly insane.

* What REALLY gives currency it's value, LOL? As long as other people just blindly accept the currency it's totally fine!

* My currency is increasing in value dramatically so it's Working (TM) right, haha take that bootlickers.

* We demolished a power grid but you know cryptocurrency is totally going to help the poor and disenfranchised!

* Why do governments need to track how I spend MY money? I should be able to give it to whoever I want without question and totally don't have to pay taxes!

* We don't need banks, but we do need these private entities with no oversight to manage and store our currency and facilitate trading. Definitely different and Free (TM) 1984.

* Those same "banks" can easily fake trading volume but no one would do that, right? I don't understand why we have laws against that with real banks?
Someone wants out and they know there's limited buy side liquidity. Once the primary market maker algos detect a big move, they get out of the way so they aren't overexposed long or short. Once they pull the liquidity it becomes a race to sell first.
Demand will not recover.
Amazon Employees Join the Rush to Buy Long Island City Condos
The "inconvenient truth" that the author subscribes to is, in fact, a plain old neoliberal capitalist worldview. It is not an objective worldview, since those don't exist, and it is focused on money and power. The author cannot imagine doing anything for society without being compensated with cash, it seems.

It sure would be an inconvenient truth for them if their blog and business and business model and a significant fraction of their perks in life were backboned by FLOSS.

The author's approach to security is deplorable but frustratingly common, treating security as a feature, as optional, and as something that is too expensive for most software. As a reminder, the author's product is an email client.

To the author's proprietary-software mindset: Remember, in the long run, all software is worthless. Someday, there will no longer be email. I have a box of add-on cards with connectors which will never be used again; I think that most folks do. We know that proprietary protocols fade away, that closed languages wither and die, and that siloed knowledge is never cited.

To tackle the final argument directly: No, the purpose of software is to compute. Stop being married to work; it's an ugly American meme and doesn't have to be how we live.

Finally, here's a popular argument that the author chose not to talk about: What if existing copyright law is unconstitutional? In particular, what if the Constitution's copyright clause forbids copyrights which survive the death of the creator; or what if works-for-hire are inherently disenfranchising to artists? This would align just fine with Stallman's opinion that copyleft is only necessary because copyright law exists; maybe a world where corporations can't take code from their employees as easily would be a better world.
Another thing the non-tech companies you mention will sometimes do is contract-to-hire. The hiring process for my current job at $BigBank was: Phone screen with recruiter. One hour interview with a couple developers. Follow up phone call with manager. That's it. Because CTH gives them months to evaluate actual skills in a real work environment before deciding whether to convert you or let you go.

It's a great arrangement for those of us who do really good work but tend to interview poorly. Probably not so popular with those who BS well in an interview but can't back it up...

The pay isn't FANG, but can be decent if your manager likes your work and you don't let HR lowball you.
> he brag on stuff that I did

> when he does something alone ... he would say "I did"

> he got promoted as manager

Act like the stereotypical manager, get promoted to manager.
Does this mean GPUs will be flooding the market? I've been looking to buy something for gaming...

https://us.bidvoy.net/gtx_1070/27386

Guess not. I suppose if most of the miners are on BTC, they'll be using custom ASICs.
Only because Ethereum dropped significantly more earlier in the year (from $293 in September to $193 a few days later...)
And how do we know this isn't what this system was bound to do eventually? It's not really been around very long.
It is written on the paper:

> "Section 7
> Multi-Kernel and Multi-Instance OSes.
>
> Multi-kernel OSes like Barrelfish, Helios, Hive, and fos run a small kernel on each core or programmable device in a monolithic server, and they use message passing to communicate across their internal kernels. Similarly, multi-instance OSes like Popcorn and Pisces run multiple Linux kernel instances on different cores in a machine. Different from these OSes, LegoOS runs on and manages a distributed set of hardware devices; it manages distributed hardware resources using a two-level approach and handles device failures (currently only mComponent). In addition, LegoOS differs from these OSes in how it splits OS functionalities, where it executes the split kernels, and how it performs message passing across components. Different from multikernels’ message passing mechanisms which are performed over buses or using shared memory in a server, LegoOS’ message passing is performed using a customized RDMA-based RPC stack over InfiniBand or RoCE network. Like LegoOS, fos separates OS functionalities and run them on different processor cores that share main memory. Helios runs satellite kernels on heterogeneous cores and programmable NICs that are not cache-coherent. We took a step further by disseminating OS functionalities to run on individual, network-attached hardware devices. Moreover, LegoOS is the first OS that separates memory and process management and runs virtual memory system completely at network-attached memory devices."
On unreliable commodity hardware, you would build a cluster and cluster OS / scheduler that would keep your service and jobs running while individual servers died. With a mainframe, you save costs on software development by just assuming the hardware is 100% reliable.

The z14 has a ton of cache and does everything it can for single threaded performance, but for the money you could buy a ton of cores (Intel Xeons or AMD chips) and trounce the mainframe on benchmarks that can use the parallelism.

For the money, you would be able to buy the gear to have a lot of bandwidth between nodes and to the storage.
Arm Always-On Mobile Face Unlock Achieves Over 98% Accuracy
It always bothers me when war is told from the perspective of the generals who lived in splendor while they were sending thousands and ten thousands of soldiers into certain death and have them live in misery in the trenches.
Yes I agree with you, the point is that being technical person doing a technical job I thought that the value that I create will talk more than the nonsense of some people. As I like to act first and share later, but there are people who talk but don't know how to act properly.

I can build this skills as you said, true, but in my position now it would be impossible to get a promotion as the available spot has been taken already.
Not surprised. Not only are we lacking in physical infrastructure, but also technological infrastructure. I still don't understand how we do not have stations like in developed Asian countries like Japan or Hong Kong. The trains are "one" unit and the stations are doubled door with people at each station assisting (or ticketing..) you if needed. The train practically drive themselves. The conductor is there for emergency purposes. We didn't even have speed regulator installed until recently (and not all trains have them!) until a bunch of trains kept on crashing because of human error. We spend billions on ONE new station, but we can't invest a couple billion to fix the infrastructure.
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Re firefighters: my understanding is that local fire departments from all over the state send assistance to large fires, see, e.g., https://abc30.com/local-fire-departments-assisting-in-wildfi...

I'm confused by "(But no, no one involved in that discussion was from California)" in the context of a discussion about salaries in Silicon Valley...

Edit: and from out of state too: https://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2018/11/11/cgb-13-...
Sousveillance is illegal on London’s TFL network. They show adverts on the screens asking you to report anybody doing it.
Seems unlikely to plummet to ruinous levels. Ridership has risen by 800 million people since 1990, but there's fewer miles of track and only a few dozen cars. It seems that the system is strained well beyond its limits and that it might be possible that having fewer people use the subway might allow a chance to fix it? The issue seems to be largely administrative based on every article I've read. There needs to be an agreement by everyone on what how to move forward, and then for that plan to be implemented uninterrupted until its completion. But good luck with that since the mayor of NYC is basically a governor and the governors of NY always seem to butt heads with them.
Where do you even buy a can of AV gas?
FATCA is about making non-US financial institutions report to the IRS et al about holdings of US citizens abroad. Worrying about terrorist cells in foreign countries made up of U.S. citizens is absurd.
> Who will use bitcoin without it having a stable value?

It just need to be stable enough for the length of the transaction. As long as you keep the bitcoins moving, the gain/loss will distribute itself over everyone and it won't be different than any bank fees.

Let say I want to buy something from you for 20$ USD, I'm in Canada, so I buy 27$ CAD of Bitcoin on a local exchange (so I buy it from someone that essentially just sold something), I transfer the resulting Bitcoin to you, you then sold it as soon as you can. Even if the Bitcoin price is losing 25% today, if you can do all that in 2 hours, you will only lose about 3%, which is similar to Visa fees. Ideally you wouldn't hold them for more than 5 minutes and it would all be automated behind the scene without your knowledge, probably through your bank if they move quick enough, but that could be through a third party too (which is the beauty of it all, you depends on no one).

That's an ideal world though and I feel like that's an utopia but that's how I see we can ignore the stability issue.
I built something similar for my senior design project. We made a game of Pacman using two little rovers running FreeRTOS with RN-131C wifi modules on a PIC board and an overhead PixyCam connected to a raspberry pi. The rovers had a color sensor on the front and back that would allow it to track a black line on white paper. The overhead camera would feed pacman and ghost positions to the identical rovers. The rovers were commanded by just telling it what to do at the next intersection and what speed to move at. We did most of the heavy lifting on the raspberry pi simply because it's quicker to write A* in python than FreeRTOS C. Once pacman was seen driving over a colored dot on the map, the ghost would be commanded to run from pacman. If the camera saw the two rovers touch, the game was over.

Modularity was pretty key on reducing the work for that project. The rovers ran identical code and had no knowledge whether they were a ghost or pacman. The command router didn't care if the instructions it received came from a AI or a user GUI.

The platform was limited by what the professor provided us. We only bought color sensor arrays. Other teams went with simpler "games" but much more complex sensor processing on the rover. Those teams had much more trouble getting their designs to work, essentially needing two separate code bases.

Half of us were taking a class on AI and the other half were taking network application design so the idea for the game seemed like an easy way to just reuse code from those classes.
I play games on Linux on Steam, and I usually turn off all kinds of phone-home features and don't take part in questionnaires, this includes the Steam client, too. I guess I am not alone.

Point is, the statistics might not be an exact representation of reality.
Linus Torvalds: After big Linux performance hit, Spectre v2 patch needs curbs
> Actually it's quite surpising that they can compile a Qt application to only 9MB, comparing to the size of the desktop shared objects!

Indeed. Presumably they "statically" link only the used functions, classes, etc.
I perhaps downplayed the flippancy in my previous comment. I'm aware of the theory and impact to the cryptocurrency world of a 51% attack.

I honestly believe that the electricity usage - and therefore climate-change impact - of cryptocurrencies to far outweigh the benefits they bring.

I think that the "value... march towards zero" is a good thing because "wasting electricity perpetually" is a bad thing. I don't think we should care about the losses of people who willingly bought into a wild-west scheme.

edited: formatting
Not quite. Minority Report is about pre-crime: a crime you haven't committed but allegedly will.
Sure, but the whys and wherefores of how they fix the security issues in SSS are harder.
Just curious, do you guys throw a bit of your retirement portfolio into roulettes at the casino just to diversify? I do, I gamble away maybe 3% of mine just in case.
By "Bitcoin maximalist" I assume you mean you want to see it enter widespread use as currency? Any thoughts on the extreme environmental downside of BTC?
I never tried because we had to work together closely and I didn't want to break the balance. And now I don't know if it make sense since he became my manager.
I predicted last fall there would be a huge sell-off as short term cap gains (35%) turn into long term cap gains (15-20%) at the 12 month mark. Time to lock in the remaining profit and realize those gains.
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I don't think I can fully address your question (especially the 'prove' part), but:

1) Why not install Privacy Badger? ( https://www.eff.org/privacybadger ) It watches which sites javascript files are loaded from, and if you go to three domains and get the same script, and it seems to be sending back information, it'll flag it and block it.

2) There is the possibility of seeing everything going from your browser to a remote computer. There are two ways.

a) Use the developer tools. In many browsers, you can bring up dev tools (possibly by hitting F12), bring up the 'Network' tab, and hit the 'Preserve Log' button. Everything that goes between your browser and the internet is recorded. You could dive into every javascript file requested, see which data and URLs are requested, etc. In most browsers, you can save this data to a .har file for later analysis, but it will contain cookies, etc, and allow someone else to spoof you.

b) similarly, you could set up a proxy (Charles Proxy, Proxie.app, mitmproxy, etc), to proxy HTTP traffic, but you'd also need to go to extra effort to proxy HTTPS traffic. Then, with your browser (or OS) set up to use the proxy, you can obtain the same sort of data as in (a).

With this information, you could see which sites you are requesting data from, what the data is, and, I suppose, analyze the sources to find out what it is doing.
It's part the MTA, part the city government as a whole, and part the state government. This feels like classic "too many cooks" bureaucracy where everyone knows THEY have the right answer and everyone else at the table is conspiring against their golden plan.
This sounds unpleasant...but I don't know why she rejected their offers so many times. If you don't seem suspicious at first, why shun all attempts at "official" contact? I'm not saying that it's her fault or anything of that nature, just that it might have went a bit smoother if she had been more forthcoming(whether or not she was compelled to). That must have been frightening though to suddenly have the fuzz at the foot of your bed though - very uncool of law enforcement to behave that way. Perhaps that's not as out of the norm as it seems to me(someone from the West).
I want to meet this product team and look them in the eyes so I can see what an empty abyss looks like.
A sentence like "How you become unstoppable is finding your 'why' for doing it" is unscientific. That doesn't mean it's wrong, it's just completely open to interpretation. There are too many different ways to refine that idea into a testable hypothesis. So it doesn't mean much to say it's based on scientific research. It doesn't have any bearing on the original comment about vague, facile language.
> Everything sells off this time of year.

Come again?
> If you're trying to get on the train downtown at 6:00pm, you'll get on the next train, and probably get to sit in a seat. If you try to do it at 5:00pm, you stand a good chance of waiting 30 minutes for a train that you can even physically get on to.

What line are you describing? I take the L every day from downtown around 5 and I can reliably get on the first train and it will arrive in < 10 minutes (and there's a good chance I'll have a seat). If a train takes more than 10 minutes, it will almost certainly be packed full, but it will also almost certainly be followed by another nearly-empty train in ~1-2 minutes.
Samsung hopes Galaxy S10 will succeed, otherwise crisis is inevitable
I wish more people knew these yet I doubt anybody is going to understand I need medical assistance if I draw an X on the ground :-(
Tranferwise makes me cringe. I fell for the hype. I failed to do research and fell into the same tarpit that even a cursory glance would have revealed.

They withdrew my funds. Promised a transfer date by the following date. Three days pass and the suddenly lock me out of my account and asked for a bunch of documents to complete the transfer.
Which sucks when it's 2am and you start blowing up a majority of shard holders phones to unseal it because it sealed itself causing a critical outage.
Reminds me of Plan 9.
> I've been doing a lot of work to clean up the debt that was accumulated and, meanwhile, I improved the reliability and the efficiency of the infrastructure. I wrote common components and library to avoid duplication and shared it with wiki pages on how to implement certain things correctly.

What's the business case for this?
Agreed, I would run the snow blower dry at the end of the season. The amount of gas it would retain isn't worth it clogging up the works.

It's pretty common for home generators to be natural gas. If gasoline, maybe keep the gas outside of it and rotate it every 3 months. I.e. have a 10 gallon can of it you buy in Jan. In april if you haven't used it yet, use it to fill up your car, and buy a new 10 gallons in a can. That way your gas is at most 3 months old, at the cost of having to lug around a can 4x a year. You could likely reduce to a 6 month rotation and not have much difference either.
Which might make them harshly powerful password crackers for anyone daft enough to use SHA256 as a password.
Does anyone have instances of forking open-source software that supports a business in order to undercut that business?
Wow, there is a (year older) copycat: https://renovatebot.com/
Assuming mass adoption and use is not going to happen without a turn of events, what's on the crypto horizon, medium or long term, that could reverse this trend?

Eg, proof of stake?
No. Sousveillance is possible without intent to observe the surveillance mechanisms in place. Go to a festival, these days, with the plethora of cameras (on phones or standalone, video or still) and people are participating in sousveillance (though likely not deliberately or recognizing it as such). They aren't watching the police or other observers. They're just particpating and recording the event itself.
"somebody here could venture a guess about the reasons for the sudden drop"

It has no inherent value, is a poor currency substitute, it is a poor store of value, and is on a long term trajectory to zero. People are realizing this and liquidating large/low basis cost positions.
FATCA is the stick used to dissuade tax evasion by US citizens. If people think they can evade taxes successfully, they will. Whether this impacts Bitcoin or other crypto is inconsequential.
You can't change what has already happened. And trying to change that will only cause more trouble.

Inform somebody higher up about this. Do it more subtly instead of name calling. Usually people sitting higher up will take this into consideration on future decisions.
For wisdom, there is books. Old people does not equal wisdom. Quite the opposite sometime. I feel like we give too much credit to old people and what they have to say.
Reasons to switch from oil based plastic to hemp oil based plastics.
> Makes your Siri say some shit in a SA accent

SA = Saudi? Or South Africa?
"Most doctors here only offered cash payments, but nowadays a lot of them offer smartphone payments. They lose 6 cent on every transaction."

What's the opportunity cost of adopting a completely new payment system versus losing 6 cents on an already very expensive transaction?
Agreed. You can always try going to his boss to explain it, but that probably won't work out. It just seems like a miserable situation to be in.
I think GP meant it is pretty bad in the market if the composite index average (and thus index ETF) is down 1.5% in a single day.
If you're going to use a fancy word like lexiphanicism to criticize someone, you should at least use it correctly.

("Lexiphanicism" does not refer to a person, but to their use of language.)
I think secondary markets could benefit from a distributed trusted database with smart contracts.

I also think that behind the scenes on wall street there are some interesting things around securities settlement, something that is very time consuming and it's handled with some antiquated technology.

If securities trades are settled faster and ownership is more easily verified it could lead to some very interesting shareholder voting behavior.

The problem with all of these is that it requires a deep understanding of the process and the nuances of the industry to build a DLT solution that works.
Nothing has soured me more on bitcoin than its impact on the environment. If for no other reason than that, I'm done with it.
vault (https://vaultproject.io) uses Shamir to generate shares for operators to unseal the vault. In the latest release (1.0beta), vault seal keys can be wrapped with something like AWS KMS which allow for operator-less unsealing of the seal keys, but trade that off with potential operator access to the seal key itself.

Collusion between operators is a real problem of Shamir-based key systems. If you have a crypto system that depends on Shamir keys and a few of your operators leave the organization or become untrustworthy for some reason, then you need to revoke / resplit the origin key data material.

Additionally, the output of the ssss command itself is not secure, so you should consider having that data going through GPG to give each operator a GPG / keybase'd output which has never been seen in cleartext by anyone but themselves.

Long story short, key management continues to be really hard and needs to be thought through from begin to end with operational procedures in place to handle the real life situations that occur (employee collusion, employee join/depart, breach).
Terrible advice. Of all people you can talk to, the bad colleague now manager is the last choice! That's how you get backstabbed.
Also, as a paper here proved a few month ago, a 51% attack only needs 30-40% if a miner grows a "local" long blockchain.
Developers and musicians cannot be compared directly; there is simply too much money in the (extended) software economy.

Look at the history of free software. It started from an academic environment where sharing was the norm.