skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. yes there is a trust flow when you join a network:

* you need to trust the paper behind the consensus mechanism

* you need to trust the people who have implemented the client, and trust them to maintain it

* you need to trust the TLS connection you use when you download the client. Meaning the whole CA system

* you need to trust your own machine, when running the client

* you need to trust the first peers you connect to when you join the network

* after you're connected to enough peers, you can usually feel safer. But you'll still have some out-of-band comparison to do between your chain and other people's chains.

2. supply-chain with blockchain = scam to me. I'd be interested in hearing about a real use-case, but when you're trying to bridge the gap between reality and the blockchain, then it usually doesn't work well.

3. Here is my mental model of consensus and why it can be useful: we have protocols that work well when everyone is honest. They mostly break when malicious peers start appearing. Consensus is the cryptography field of study that attempts to solve this issue. You need a good chunk of people to be honest when you run such a protocol in a "public" setting. We recently discovered, with bitcoin, that financial incentives work well. So now we have:

* financial incentives can help us make public consensus protocols work

* research brought us good consensus mechanisms that we can use in more private settings

The technology works well when you think of banking. Many banks want to cooperate in the way they exchange money between them, but they don't necessarily trust each other, or their security. So they form a protocol using a consensus mechanism.

Now, a cryptocurrency is exactly the same thing, but in a way where anyone can connect directly to the backbone of these banks' infrastructure. You will necessarily have plenty of issues stemming from that: what if you lose your money, get it stolen, what if the exchange you use get hacked, etc. But the benefits are still pretty awesome: you are not going through a bank, you are directly connected to the system.

Just my 2 cents.
Kinda hilarious to watch the graphic on your website studiously circling around everywhere in the West, except Nevada. Did the same thing on my 1 year trip, though.
New UN deal with data mining firm Palantir raises protection concerns
how soon until our ultra-paranoid security team convinces our company we need to switch to this
Unfortunately, it's the hacking mindset when it's applied to the treatment of other humans.
When the pendulum swings very-left (as it will, American politics follow a tick-tock partisan pattern) I believe someone (AOC?) will crack down on "contractor" companies - they're not paying payroll taxes. Not a good thing.
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That seems like it would be incredibly easy to DoS someone.
Instacart workers should not allow themselves bullied to this point.
Thanks, that's helpful.
Earlier poster is correct about not being intuitive. Now that I know about it, that's awesome. Sadly, it's not supported by the Google keyboard (long press kicks off voice search).
and it pollutes the googleborg no less, by using a gmail account.

occasionally people (accidentally?) use my (long-in-disrepair) gmail account in this way, and it's amusing to see their little peccadillos. sometimes you get the devilish chance to change subtle details of an online profile =D
Genuinely curious, are there any sort of legal rights or entitlements for people who share memes/funny pictures on social media?

I don't disagree that FuckJerry's behavior is pretty shady, but cmon... the entire meme community is pretty much built on reposts. Isn't that the whole point of sharing stuff on social media. Why are people acting so entitled? Seems to me they just saw the huge revenue pie and want a piece.
"Punching up/down" is not a legal principle; thank goodness, though it sure looks like Patreon is punching down at marginal figures. Nor are "intrinsic traits" any kind of legal principle. Nor are religions, ethnies, language choice, sexual habits, anything any more intrinsic than political beliefs, not that this matters as a legal principle.

Your views as to what is good or bad are not absolute, and, I hate to break it to you, there is no legal principle behind them other than that which used to back up blasphemy laws. We decided as a society in the 1960s that there's no such thing as blasphemy, and that providing a public accommodation means you have to serve everyone who isn't violating the law.

Yes I agree with you, people like you and Ron Paul attempt to weaponize civil rights at the service of corporations, not people. Look at you telling me that Patreon has every right to deny service to people you disagree with. I'm pretty sure if they denied service to, say, atheists, you'd change your mind!
The trend of programming languages is to move toward static typing. Not as an afterthought, with gradual typing or retrofitted years later into an unwilling compiler, but languages designed from day one with static typing, parametric polymorphism, and type inference.

Clojure's life time was limited from day one because it's simply going against the trend.
> 1. Anyone who wishes to "lobby" congressional candidates or congresspersons must register their financial interests

Under the terms of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995, anyone who spends 20% or more of their work time lobbying the Federal government already has to register themselves, and disclose both the clients they lobby on behalf of and any expenses they incur as part of their lobbying activities. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying_Disclosure_Act_of_199... for more information.)

Many states also have similar laws in place regarding lobbying of state officials, though obviously the details will vary depending on what state you're in.
“Content Marketing” articles are proliferating on HN currently...
>Is it allowed under GMail's TOS?

Do you even have to ask? The answer is a clear 'NO'. There is zero chance that Google will allow you to abuse their email service in this way.

I hope OPs personal account isn't in anyway related to this account because when 'guerillclick@gmail' is inevitably banned, his personal account may be collateral damage.
Sure, assuming the definition of "average" we're using here is "not from a family with significant economic means", rather than "led an uninteresting life".

One that immediately springs to mind as both relevant and a good read is You Can't Win[1], the autobiography of a jailbird who was primarily active in the American West around the turn of the century. (I read it after seeing it mentioned in a HN thread, as it happens). I can't recall specific examples as it's been a while, but the author received a grounding in history at a religious school as a kid that shows up throughout the work in the form of various allusions to history and mythology.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can't_Win_(book)
The powerful groups in EvE will also require that you have at least a year worth of skill points before they'll take you.

A literal real life year worth. Not kidding.

Skills level up in EvE even while offline, and there's not way to increase them other than the passage of time (except by leveling up other skills that decrease the learning points needed for new skills, but still).
If it is some reasonable amount of work to show your skills, do it.

Personally I would say okay for something up to two or three hours worth. Consider it an investment in your future job.

The alternative is a white-board coding task, where your risk of hitting something that you are really unprepared for is much, much higher.

DISCLAMER: I have given out homework in the 1.5 to 2 hour range as a hiring manager. A smallish, self contained problem (without any commercial value), just to see the candidates actually can write working code - and to get an idea about their angle of attack for the problem..
You're reading me completely backwards. If Patreon are collaborators for allowing Nazis to use their platform, then are we collaborators for allowing Nazis to have free speech in our country?

If the answer to the first is "yes", then why is the answer to the second "no"?
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I never suggested it did.
Touché

Absolutely agree.
The big problem is the corporate tax itself. It's incredibly hard to tax corporations fairly and efficiently, and as a result the corporate tax code is way more complex than any practical citizen could ever understand. It's hard enough for tax accountants and lawyers that have dedicated their entire profession to understanding it.

The whole reason we have a corporate tax is because we feel rich people need to be taxed more, but the association between corporation and rich person is fuzzy at best. More nefariously, you are taxing pools of organizational and financial capital as opposed to individuals...which means that their ability to fight the tax code is amplified with pooled resources. It's regulatory capture waiting to happen.

The better option would be to dump the corporate tax entirely, and have all capital gains and dividends taxed as income. I know it can't be that simple because they're not the same as income, but working out those details would be a hell of a lot easier than trying to figure out how to get corporations to repatriate income after their international tax arbitrage schemes.
Totally, one wish list item from my post was that education be cheap.

Back when I went to university I paid for it by working farm labour. Not so feasible now.

If we prioritized that as a society, we could have practically free higher education.
I've been in growth hack meetings (usually around customer acquisition and retention) this screams to me like a former PwC consultant came in and delivered PPT presentation with some sort of finance speak of "Leveraging In-App Tips to Dynamically Improve Cash Flow via User Behavior Arbitrage" or some other such nonsense.
I agree that there's some value to curation. It'd be nice to see it built in as a first-class feature. Let someone repost, but automatically credit the original poster. Also maybe do some sort of revenue split on ads. 30% to the curator and 70% to the original creator or something along those lines.
>Tax evasion is evil morally because every dollar they don't pay, others have to pay

You mean the government makes others pay (unless the government just wants to go into debt, as it usually does).

>give back to the society that enabled the profit

Most government expenditure (see: military spending unnecessary for national defense) does jack shit for your economic productivity.
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Maybe I'm missing something; it mentioned it was using organs from executed prisoners. Is that a bad thing?

Again, I feel like I missed a part of this article, so I'm genuinely confused.

EDIT: I was under the (erroneous) impression that these people were being executed for other crimes, like murder or rape or something. I didn't realize people were being executed on demand. That's terrifying.
Commuting is deductible - up to a certain extent: https://www.theharrisongrouponline.com/services/section-132-...
The Excel models all look a lot nicer if you take the tips!
Generic Brand Video said it better, faster and was more entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YBtspm8j8M
Articles like this ultimately describe the symptom and not the actual problem. They have a subtext of how we're wasting talented people, and not how we're failing to care for disadvantaged people in general. Ultimately we have to believe that all people have worth, not just the talented ones.
There's plenty of former employees who've left issues with low pay and these policies. I'd rather show solidarity with them by not supporting their exploitative former employer.
The only economist over a hundred years old I'll trust is Marx.

It doesn't appear to be a rigorous fallacy, just a defacto one, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
Is there an effective mnemonic for the model designations? I've heard the lineup several times and it's just not sticking. Because of this, I tend to forcibly _not_ think about the iPhone to save mental CPU cycles.
Mandatory anything is a bad start.
You can give cash tips instead.
Ikea when the size is available, for reasons I cannot discuss here.
Dude, you need to consent to having your organs donated.
There was recently a Planet Money podcast[0] about the HAIL program at U of Michigan. That program basically sends a pamphlet to poor and/or rural students in Michigan with good grades to let them know about the scholarships that the school already offers and to let them use a fast-track application process.

Basically it is telling them about things they already had access to but might not have known about. It was only a small experiment, but the early results were promising.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/01/24/688395248/hail...
Of course not. I never said anything to the contrary.
>public companies have obligation to maximise profits for their shareholders //

They're not. Not in EU or USA at least.

So, not they aren't under any obligation to be shitty to the public by diminishing tax paid in the countries they operate in.

Anyone posting an attempted contradiction should cite the relevant laws making it a legal requirement for companies to maximise profits [above any [other] moral consideration].
My guess is this was a top down decision from the CFO/COO or head of product.
Does anybody here have a 'canonical' application or example in mind that shows me what neo4j can do that matches my intuitive understanding better than the 'regular' RDBMS?
Those Instacart workers can go drive for the other companies that will get my business. I'm not skipping out on grocery and food delivery. I'm voting for good behavior with my wallet.

Note: I recognize the same people driving for different services pretty regularly.
Betting on CFO/COO. Head of Product should be more in touch with... humans.
As an MBA, I really take issue with this cynicism of MBA programs. It's not like we're cold greedy bastards. Stop generalizing. People can make great and terrible decisions, regardless of grad school degree choice.
In my experience, this is mostly a taxation question. Just do the math for both options and see which way you’d pay less taxes.

It used to be that an S Corp would be more efficent up until your total personal income/wages from all sources hits $120k a year or so. Only after that, a C Corp becomes more efficient.

* This is mostly about wages but if you also pay yourself dividends, you should factor them in too
That's his brand, but I am not convinced that he lives up to that standard. Dude lacks intellectual humility big time, and seems to support scientific racism[0].

[0]: https://samharris.org/ezra-klein-editor-chief/
The decline of JavaScript. Web Assembly will soon have DOM access. It will be game-on for other languages in the browser.

Let's be honest, is JavaScript the winner because it is amazing, or the winner because it was the only choice in the browser. I know my opinion. The other ecosystems, with different strengths, will soon be able to achieve single-language stacks when the playing field is leveled. This will be a boon to productivity.
Is python finally getting past the 2/3 jump?
Why doesn't this problem exist when I order something from Amazon? Because there is no absurd idea that I should be tipping the UPS guy or anyone else involved in fulfilling my order.

It makes much more sense for InstaCart to simply collect star ratings and offer bonuses for the employees who are going above and beyond.

Considering how often the shopper has to call me about replacements, parking outside my building, etc., Instacart should be focusing on fixing the inventory issues and logistical issues, not trying to shame me into paying its employee an extra $5 at every turn.

Instacart charges for delivery and often marks up the prices of the items. I don't like being shaken down via a default tip when trying to check out. It's extremely irritating!
Go look up scotopic vision, phototopic vision, and metamerism if you want a deeper dive on human vision.

Our eyes are most sensitive in the green, but green LEDs are not necessarily the most sensitive
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I keep trying to find an excuse and space on my property to build a little shed. I think it is the engineer in me, indeed. In my case the biggest driver is, the main house will always be imperfect and too cost-prohibitive to fix. A small shed on the other hand, can realize my dreams for the main house.
I have a saying when my peers compare themselves to the Zuckerbergs and Gates and Musks of the world: How many hundreds of thousands of dollars did your parents spend on your education? Because you have to realize that is who you are competing with.

I went to a VERY RURAL high school. We had 3 math classes that everyone went through... none of them college level. My math class decided it was funny to rip up the floor tiles and smash them against the blackboard when the teacher's back was turned. Kids would just not do the homework and they would pass them so they didn't have to deal with them for another year.

No AP classes, no test prep to speak of. Top of the class were just the obedient kids who did the 7th-grade level homework assignments. We had a small band and it was tight-knit and fun.

I get really down on myself because I'm so far away from what I actually want to be. But did I actually have a chance? Yeah. But a small one. Much smaller than a lot of other people. And now the kind of jobs I can get are... fine I guess. Not great, just fine. I'm almost 30 and now I need to learn a ton of mathematics my peers have known for a decade.

I ended up going to whatever Chicago college would take me at an affordable rate ( DePaul ). College was hard. I worked 40 hours a week and went to night classes. I struggled through the "easy" classes and SCRAPED past on the hard classes.

Still, my early education wasn't SO BAD. At least I didn't have to worry about violence or a gang trying to draft me.

I have a crazy idea around this: End high school sooner.

Let the kids leave sophomore year, or even earlier. Let them go to trade schools.

For most of the country, school is just child jail. Why are we forcing students who WANT TO LEARN AND IMPROVE deal with students who do not want to be there, and are going to end up working at a tire plant anyway?

"But but but.. the education!" They are not getting an education anyway. The schools do not have enough resources to teach these kids. They do not want to be there. They are torturing everyone around them because they are bored.
Yes, that's a bad thing. The Chinese state has a documented history of executing people on demand in order to harvest their organs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go....

Even if you were going to be executed anyway, you obviously have a right to determine what happens to your organs, particularly in cultures like China's, where it's seen as very important that the body remain whole.
>all get brought up constantly

and are quickly met with "that's not real socialism".
You can't seriously say that a multi-million dollar company can't enforce those security features by default.

This is the same as having a car recall and having people dying before the letters reach their homes and saying 'they should have known this company's cars could explode'
This 100%. And there's a non-zero chance that a prisoner is only kept alive long enough until one of their organs is needed.
This is why it is important for words to have specific meanings. This muddling of "irony" is at least partially responsible for the narrative fallacy that you describe. The universe does not care about our subjective experience. "Unlikely" events occur in everyone's life, but not because the Fates are taking poetic license with that life. If the roads should be better maintained or if they are maintained much better than they should be, we won't know from repairs to the local road superintendent's car.

I love new usages that make English more capable or more entertaining. I detest those that impoverish our discourse and thus our thinking.
What's to crack down on exactly? The government still gets all its taxes. It just gets all of it from the employee (sorry, "contractor") rather than getting half each from the employee and employer.
Contracting firms are effectively paying payroll taxes indirectly because contractors are (required to be) paying equivalent self-employment taxes, which figures into labor costs for the firms.

And, in any case, a significant part of the left opposes payroll taxes as an an additional (on top of the effects of, e.g, long-term capital gains’ favorable rates) way in which labor is structurally overtaxed compared to other income and would prefer most payroll taxes be abolished and the services they fund instead funded by getting the revenue from taxes that aren't restricted to labor.

That being said, contractor firms get out of lots of substantive workplace protections that are important to the left, which is an issue even without payroll taxes.
You don’t need to go to an elite university to make a better life. I went to community college and then a mediocre (in terms of rankings, not educational content!) state school. I was raised by a single mom. I now make roughly 7.5X what she made. My sister went to a brand-name state university in a different state on a full scholarship and is doing better than our mom, but not 7.5X better.
At this time I am not interested in living in a van but for a long time I have wanted some kind of auxiliary heater for my minivan. It could be powered by diesel or a five gallon propane tank. I think it strange something like this is not off the shelf as unfortunately a lot of people live in their cars or vans because they have no where else to go. For winter living it would have to be better for the engine and for fuel consumption.
I've always found this practice outrageous but don't understand why everyone else is only getting outraged now that Instacart and DoorDash do it...

This is pretty normal in the restaurant and food delivery industry, and should have been made illegal ages ago.
> That sounds like a great plan if you're not going to be a retiree in a few decades. Maybe you plan on dying early?

No, I'm saying investing while things are hot, and selling before it cools down is a way to maximize profits. It doesn't require sustainability. There are a ton of millionaires from the Dot Com boom in the early 2000s that got theirs and got out before the bubble broke. It works; it just leaves a _lot_ of collateral damage, so it's not a moral thing to do. But it works. That was my point.

> Teaching people how to kick someone when they're down isn't rational. It just means that you're going to get kicked when you're down, too.

There are a lot of rich people that would laugh at this. I'm not saying it's good, I'm saying it's rational.
I understand your suggestion about not retracting the research and I am certain reasonable people would fall on both sides of this question. But it is not unreasonable to destroy something useful that appeared thanks to something horrible, in a show of moral leadership and an absolutist refutation of the horrible practice.

For a much lower stakes example: The bounty confiscated from poachers (ivory for instance) is destroyed instead of being legally sold to fund the anti-poaching efforts.
Hah. Well it's obviously a case where the consumer habit of tipping for delivery means that on a $100 order there may be $105 that the customer is willing to (or used to having to) pay. Thus leaving that $5 on the table is perhaps a stupid business decision. I should hope an MBA would point that out, so long as another MBA pointed out that the user experience may be more important than the few extra dollars.