skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar#Value
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We use Jira but it has such a vast disconnect from how the mind works. I'd rather have a shared document that has one liners like so:

New reconciliation engine
[x] Migrate to new prod db
[ ] Add feature to copy study objects (jim can explain)
[ ] Move study list rest service to graphql
...

Inverted micro editor
[ ] ...
I don't hide mine, but mine are bought for odd personal reasons.

The one I have on right now is _probably_ a real 1957 Sputnik 1 Poljot commemorative watch. It could be a fake, but if it is it's got the pre 1962 movement in it, so its at least "period"... And I don't actually care, it only cost me $70.

I also have a somewhat-less-likely-to-be-genuine 17-jewel Sturmanskie Soviet Airforce watch like the one Yuri Gagarin wore into space in 1961. Again, I don't actually care if it's genuine or not - I like the idea of it enough. Somebody might have gone to enough effort to make a plausible fake out of period-correct parts, and sold it to me for ~$80 - good on them... I still get to use it as a story-starter...
Artworks, antiques, gemstones. None of these are of any practical value, yet they hold value. You’re over systematising and not getting it. Value isn’t inherently rational.

Also, what was the false equivalence?
This is an "ideal" which I would argue almost never happens in the real world.
There is a web service that sends animal manure to people if you would like to use it as a medium of exchange.
Part of what attracted me to the concept of crypto-currency was the ability to conduct financial transactions in a medium that was not being inflated by central authorities. If it were accepted by more providers of goods and services, I wonder how the energy used to "mine bitcoin" would compare to the energy used to "run central bank offices?"
I don't like some guys making millions while some other guys nearly equally deserving get nothing. But still, trying to determine "originality" is a fool's errand just like copyright on so much of art is a fool's errand.
I left a recent comment on HN about this[0], and at the risk of sounding like a shill I'll share it again as it helped at least one person :) My experience tracks with yours, and it really does seem like modern medicine is missing something important.

The book The Mind-Body Prescription[1] by Dr. Sarno covers this exact topic, and made a huge impact on my life and the life of a friend of mine. It's a worthwhile read for scientifically-minded skeptics who are feeling frustrated that doctors seem stumped by their chronic pain/illness. I had a worsening pain that jeopardized my ability to work a desk job, and that book resolved it in a matter of weeks.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17899992

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mindbody-Prescription-Healing-Body-Pa...
Yes. A $100 counterfeit handbag costs American companies at least $100 in lost profits, possibly a lot more if she would have bought a $500 genuine handbag instead.

It's interesting to see that there are enough chinese people working in the US that they are posting lots of stuff here defending at least some of their government's actions. I don't blame them, but its something to keep in mind when discussing what levels of immigration we as Americans feel is in our best interest.

You seem to post a lot of comments about China. I appologize if you aren't actually Chinese, I've just noticed a lot of Chinese people advocating for the interests of China on here lately.
You're basically saying people should be free to lose money, though; there's no real upside.

Put another way: if someone can consistently make money on speculation, why don't they have enough to be an accredited investor? It's not like there's a dearth of less regulated investment opportunities.
Well they're french, so M stands for Mille (one thousand). MM is just a thousand squared, and MMM is a thousand qubed.

Once you understand this system you might also understand why the long system makes more sense.

1000 = Mille M
1000 000 = Million MM
1000 000 000 = Milliard MM M
1000 000 000 000 = Billion MM MM
1000 000 000 000 000 = Billiard MM MM M

in the short system the billion (nine zeros) has nothing to do with two. while in the long system it represents double as many zeros as the million. a trillion has three times the Zeros. -ard suffix? add 3 zeros
Have you considered that your insight is actually failing to account for a variety of unknown unknowns you might have about the NYC subway system?

No. Whatever the unknown unknowns are, they're not going to be that hard to work around. Keeping track of a few train cars isn't exactly the Manhattan Project, even if it has to be done underneath Manhattan.

The video suggests that the total budget for the CBTC retrofit was in the vicinity of $1 billion. I hope that I either misinterpreted it, or that the budget includes other improvements, because I doubt it cost that much (in 2018 dollars) to build the initial subway routes in the first place.

Look at it this way: why do you suppose your suggestions haven't been implemented yet? Do you think the vast array of parties with skin in the game haven't thought of them (and are thus incompetent)? Do you think they simply aren't motivated to implement them?

I think the vast array of parties with skin in the game have treated said "skin" as a target for optimization in itself. I'll readily admit they're likely better at that game than I am.
They were probably taken on Kodachrome, which was renowned for its colour reproduction (or at least its aesthetics). It's also archival quality film, so older negatives don't age much if kept in the dark. It was also designed for projection so had a fairly high contrast.

They're also obviously scanned, and we don't know what settings were used. Kodachrome is pretty great though, I wouldn't be surprised if they looked that nice in the flesh. That's what was truly impressive about those golden era films, they just worked. You sent them off, they got developed and they looked fantastic.

There are physical differences in how film and ccd/cmos sensors record light, which may have a subtle effect. Nowadays digital sensors are superior in pretty much every way to film, and you can get whatever effect you want using post processing. The exeption is that medium and large format film is still a lot cheaper than super high resolution digital sensors.
This seems like a similar argument people made for Trump and look how that turned out for them.

Surely there are no other similarities between the two though [1].

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39478066
I wouldn't hold my breath on the "stable currency" part. Actual stable currencies are actively managed by people with expertise and major resources. At best I think Bitcoin will end up following its design of being deflationary, which history shows leads to hoarding. But I think it's more likely it will either drop to near zero or continue wild price swings.
Jira was designed for agile software development
like Scrum, so you should write user stories, not
mini specifications.

Yeah, this is true.

I was at a company that did Scrum. There were two managers who functioned as product owners on the scrum teams.

Manager A took the correct approach. Developers were aware of the overall goal, and we broke those goals down into stories, and broke the stories down into tasks. As developers we had a good sense of ownership and responsibility.

Manager B tended to just issue stories (which were really mini specs) to us. We were treated like children. We didn't know why we were doing what we were doing, and were not able to contribute to the design of the solutions we were handed, which were often suboptimal.

A lot of teams take "Manager B's" approach and wonder why the developers hate Scrum.
198 artfully concealed items found in 2017: https://www.tsa.gov/blog/2018/01/29/tsa-year-review-record-a.... That's pretty extremely rare, given the number of people who go through TSA screens ever year.

I'd recommend reviewing the link though, as that number includes things you might not think are deliberate attempts to hide stuff (swords in canes?).
Sobel filter afterwards.
Isn't the whole point of this thread that gold is superior to bitcoin as a store of value because it also has intrinsic value/utility?

If most people investing in gold are using it as a store of value, it says nothing of the other uses for the material.

When you're making an investment in something, it's a feature for that thing to have more, not less, potential applications.
The value would need to become a lot more stable. I doubt people are getting a better result with crypto than a standard forex broker right now. Only use case I can see would be when your cross border transfer is going to be on the wrong side of the law at either end.
On popular Chinese video sites, you can watch the pirated China Hustle, and the comments section is unsurprisingly almost all about blaming the Americans' stupidity.

American systems are just full of loopholes for Chinese, and Chinese will exploit every one of it for gains, and it's seen as deserved and normal in China, cos they are not taking from you, it's from "the system/pubilc/country", so it's non of your business and not yours to judge, if your are jealous then take it yourself if you are abled too.
I remember all of the "I could write Twitter in a weekend" posts on blog years ago. Your comment reminded me of that, sadly.
Checked for my home country (Switzerland), and it doesn't seem to be correct - travel to Canada requires an eTA, but the site lists Canada as being visa free. Could get you in for an unpleasant surprise when your airline won't let you board (they check for eTA at check-in).
Jira Cloud & Jira Server (on-premise) are two different beasts. I can speak for on-premise only. On my on-premise system which is located on the other coast of the country, a ticket loads in 1.5 ~ 2.5 seconds once your assets are cached at least once by your browser.

Things I've seen that can adversely affect your speed: installing random plugins that are poorly written, integrations, having too many admins over-complicating the Jira configuration.

Learn the keyboard shortcuts to speed up your basic operations.
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Bleed-over is not normal in Scrum. If the entire team finishes early, complete the sprint and create a new one, don’t drag in more work unless the entire team can agree it will finish within the original timebox. Each sprint has a definition of done, and if you’re not going to deliver it, you’ve got to end the sprint and start a new one, you can’t change things mid-sprint and expect everything to run just fine. The biggest problem I see in practice, and Jira encourages this, are tasks assigned to specific individuals such that the team doesn’t feel empowered to take on sprint tasks “assigned” to other people. In reality, the entire team is assigned the entire scrum, and you can’t ever take pride in finishing “your tasks” early unless your team’s tasks have finished early too! I get it, though, there’s a difference between idealized scrum and what most companies implement using Jira. That’s definitely still a problem to look into, but I can only put half the blame at best on the tool itself. If the tool didn’t have flexibility to fit to any process, folks would just pick another tool that does. Jira is simply the least such a tool could do, it’s up to you to figure out the better process for your team... and Scrum is the least-worst process I’ve encountered so far.
IANAL. I think that it is like a book. If I write it and I sell/give it as a present to you, then you can do a lot of things with the copy (like burning it) but I still have the copyright and you can't republish it (outside fair use).
Bad for interview practice.
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Last year it was $20000, a month or so ago $6000. I can't see any major changes in the underlying utility of the coin throughout that period.
Gold enjoys a lot of fashionable demand. Which is very much why you shouldn't use it to store your money - because not enough is actually propping up that demand. It just has a longer historical inertia - if you want to see a future problem, depending on the mineralogical analysis of near earth asteroids we could be in for a long slow decline if it's abundant up there.
> What audio could you get lossless before that you now can't that you're claiming there has been a regression?

Compact discs. You should look them up. :-) Lots of music out these days that you can't find on a CD.
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The receiver now has the message and can delete it, forward it, copy it, etc. The sender may also keep a copy. Both the sender and receiver can do what they want with their copies.

(This ignores copyright. I don't like copyright, but with copyright laws, presumably the sender would be the copyright holder, I should think?)
Comments like this are interesting to me. I can see from your comment history here that you are pretty negative in what you have to say. I can see that you're also on a HB1 and a self taught engineer without a lot of experience. My advice to you is to take a step back and reflect on why you were let go.

Regardless of the internal structure of Consensys, I don't think that blaming it on them or the big ponzi scheme of crypto is the answer. Reductions happen all the time across many different industries. Especially in technology. If anything, Consensys is doing the responsible thing and 'trimming the fat' when times get lean. Remember, there is still >1000 people that were not affected by the reduction.

Look inwards before blaming outwards.
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And why do you think those interest rates are "very attractive"? Are you by any chance picking up pennies in front of a steamroller?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taleb_distribution
Full-time, side projects, learning, and staying sane
I guess I'm a dork, but I'll never understand beer branding. The active ingredient is alcohol, a drug that induces various desirable effects. You wouldn't pay extra for artisanal aspirin or tylenol, so why alcohol?

Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBb9O-aW4zI
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Quote below illustrates why Germany needed to be completely crushed in WW2. No conditional surrender.

It also reminds me of some of the people today. They live in their own reality.

>>This young man is a completely successful product of Nazi education. With the possible exception of the Spitfire which brought him down, everything in this country is “lächerlich”. He has met Hitler several times and considers him a genius of “Kolossale” personal courage, proved (rather inadequately) by Hitler’s visits to the front.
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I disagree. Good craft beer is far more than "overhopped". It's very difficult to make, and make consistently, and there are a plethora of different ingredients, styles, techniques and methods out there that people are using and innovating with.

A lot of the "overhopped" stuff is actually macro beer disguised as craft beer.

If you don't like it then that's fine of course, but I think it's hard to deny the amount of creativity and innovation that goes into making a really good beer.
I'm not talking about it's use for fashion.

I'm talking about industrial usage - like the contacts on your CPU. Gold offers a unique combination of very high electrical conductivity and near-immunity to corrosion.
Two lines still run a train model that's almost sixty years old! You can ride it to the Transit Museum where they have it on display https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R32/A_(New_York_City_Subway_ca...
Breaks the back-button.

Would be kinda nicer if it didn't store so much data in the URLs.
What it will take for Ripple (XRP) to go on a rally?
Yeh because it's there island. The war is over give it up. No internationally agrees with china. Therefore it's not there island. Also you forgot the important word there. Defend, They are defending not attacking anyone.
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Doesn't this have more to do with how people are using the tool rather than how JIRA markets it? If you expect one piece of software to solve all your problems, then you don't know a lot about how software gets designed.
I think the 'some info' page should be shown after every answer, especially on answers that were marked as incorrect. How will I ever learn if it doesn't tell me what the right answer is? Other than that, nice work!
Yeah, it doesn’t really have utility. It’s a thing other people will trade things for based on a kind of collective insanity. It just happens to be the same kind of collective insanity that we apply to lots of things, only we dress this thing up in tech-speak while we dress others up in aesthetics.
On the other hand, genuinely premium brands like Brunello Cucinelli stay quiet and do provide high quality, but at a price no one can afford. For those in the know, the namesake CEO is in tight with the Silicon Valley power players. Mark Zuckerberg trademark hoodies are made by Brunello, as are most of the Apple, Salesforce, and various other major tech companies wardrobes. Unlike what this writer believes, even billionaires signal, but it’s far more subtle.
This might use AI but it's nothing but marketing here. Isn't any sufficiently 'trained' program AI under this definition? If I put enough possible paths in my matching system, I get this. Intellicode is just a minor improvement on intellisense that could have been made years ago without any kind of AI branding.
A while back I noticed that my HN karma was rising at a rate that would put me on the leaderboard, so I decided to make an effort to submit content and post quality comments just to see if I could crack the top 100. After a few months I did it, and kept rising up to a high of 85 (today I'm #88). Then I realized I was spending way too much time on HN, and how easy it was to fall into this trap of thinking I was doing something worthwhile just because people were upvoting me. There is something visceral about looking at a number that you have somehow convinced yourself is a measure of your value as a human being, and seeing that number get bigger, even if at the end of the day that number is utterly meaningless. And, of course, when it comes to money the number is not meaningless, which makes the effect that much more powerful.

BTW, money is not just good for buying material things. You can spend arbitrary amounts of money on philanthropy and political donations. Once you start to do that, a lot of people start to want to be your friend. That kind of attention and deference can also be a very powerful drug.
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so, basically just paste data in from clipboard
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The great Brazilian Sat-Hack crackdown (2009)
Keeping that a secret would be nigh impossible. It's still extremely unlikely this would actually work in the government's favor.
Technicals work until they don't.
Yeah, I think you are right about that. I'll try work something in at lunch tomorrow. Cheers
It tastes better. Like, way better.
Further expanding. GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP)[1] is what gets used to connected to the provider's data/voice network. This could be over any medium (wifi, GSM, UMTS, or LTE). It's likely this was the cert protecting GTP-C's ipsec tunnel[2] as without the ability to signal, pretty much everything on the network goes down.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPRS_Tunnelling_Protocol

[2] https://cyber-defense.sans.org/resources/papers/gsec/securin...
Do you use Tor everyday?
torproject.org has a section called 'Who Uses Tor?' and lists: Friends and Family, Businesses, Activists, Media, etc.

None of my IT colleagues use it, my family certainly doesn't use it, and two guys I know who work in the NetSec field don't bother with it. It would seem the stigma is real.

Do you use Tor everyday?

- Browse HN and reddit with it?

- Do regular search queries and browsing on it?

- Use legitimate .onion sites (DuckDuckGo, Facebook, Proton Mail) instead of their clearnet address?
When you download something, you get remaining size and ETA both. Having distance gives some concrete data instead of just an estimation.
I think part of his views are colored by his job, where they are doing work for external customers. Prose and architectural docs up front can ease the sales process and get the customer on board.

My experience with Jira was positive, it organically grew into every department. We never had to bill customers by the hour or produce burndown charts for upper management though.

Though, all our larger projects did start with Confluence wikis, and each meeting would be summarized in a comment/edit, or a subpage. Similar to what he proposes I guess.
> This view ran counter to a lot of conservationist thought, as well as a great deal of evidence. Grazing has been blamed for turning vast swaths of the world into deserts. But from Creque’s perspective, how you graze makes all the difference.

This is the idea behind this fantastic TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI

We're largely focused on high-tech ways to "fix" the Earth, but the Earth has known how to do it since forever. Finding ways to use her own intelligence seems like a great idea.
And in the real world, you often go through all of the ceremony of a “release” but it isn’t put in production until it’s complete anyway. Until then, the feature is just on a UAT server and the code is officially “in production” but it’s behind a feature flag.
One of the great pioneers of AI, Joseph Weizenbaum, foresaw some of this: Here's a quote from an interview [1]:

" if it had not been for the computer...they [the banks] might have had to decentralize, or they might have had to reorganize in some way. ... What the coming of the computer did, "just-in-time" was to make it unnecessary to change the system in any way. So the computer has acted as fundamentally a conservative force, a force which kept power or even solidified power where it already existed."

But I think there is also the Web 2.0 "echo chamber" effect, or positive feedback effect, based on the filter bubbles, and customised news. We tend to hear only from people who have the same views. Moreover, opinions are getting amplified, and you get ignored unless you make extreme, polarising and clickbait comments. Only such comments are "upvoted". I have disabled Disqus, Vuukle, and other comment-based services available on most news websites by redirecting all of these to localhost in my /etc/hosts file. Reading news feels less disturbing now.

[1] http://tech.mit.edu/V105/N16/weisen.16n.html
Blackouts are no longer an issue. I imagine the water turned off because the pumps couldn't operate (no electricity). I should do a blog post about the reason why electricity was generated but not directed to the right place (corruption).

There are still parts of Kathmandu that feel like you've stepped back in time but are growing increasingly hard to find. The city at times feels overpopulated due to the huge amounts of migrants that came for services and work. While Kathmandu is incredibly polluted (due to road works, construction, river pollution), they've come a long way in the last few years.