skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Im not sure people really understand the implications of a team of companies that collaborate often banding together, and eliminating the need for 3rd party audits and 3rd party fund settlement.

I think it is more that people don't understand what existing technologies there are already, but they've heard of this "blockchain" thing, and the black and white view is one where you either need a blockchain or you don't need anything.

There are some other interesting technologies and research areas. One example is SMPC. In 2008 (pre-dating Bitcoin), a secure auction with sealed bids was conducted in Denmark for the purchase of beets from independent farmers[1]. This kind of research get drowned out by the blockchain hype because nobody is interested in something which doesn't print their own money.

There are also more well understood distributed databases and consensus algorithms which work when you have semi-cooperative parties. I think a lot of these "blockchains" really just want a merkle-tree, and they could probably get by with a database like noms[2]

When you have a bunch of cooperating parties, they either need to assume that the parties are cooperative, or you need an arbitration process. The arbitration process is what the blockchain is about (with the record keeping in the blockchain being a kind of toxic waste which is kept around to support that). What do you do when the parties are being uncooperative? If there are only a few parties, then PoW is not a viable solution because one party could outpace others if they have more computing power. If you pick something like Proof-of-stake, then several parties could collude to swindle others. If you have a centralized system, you've not gained anything. Ultimately, the companies involved are always going to take any quarrels to a legal court and have a human decide the outcome - meaning their blockchain is going to have to be "fixed" by manual intervention anyway.

[1]:https://eprint.iacr.org/2008/068

[2]: https://github.com/attic-labs/noms
Would the AirTable app suffice? I believe you can complete all of those tasks and it’s free.
Theft = vernacular porch piracy. Prevention = happy shoppers. Happy shoppers = more sales. More sales = happy company.
Here's one of the comments from the guardian under that article:

buddhabuddha
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As Cheese Commando pointed out in the very first comment in this string, Sorrel Neiss did indeed used to work for China Daily in Beijing -- China's English language Pravda.

Ho hum though -- plurality of opinion and all that: we wouldn't want to sink to Beijing's level and censor her, right? (We can correct her though on those waaaay wayward notions of China's hospitals in Tibet, etc.)

As the Dalai Lama himself concedes, Tibet was indeed quite a dark and savage place; many other places in Asia, Africa and Europe were also dark and savage at the same time -- including of course China.

Indeed, the Dalai Lama was on the point of instituting a series of social and governmental reforms in Tibet -- who knows if they would or wouldn't have worked -- when the Chinese People's Liberation Army invaded.

Just so's ya know.
Those women weren't doing computer science. They were doing the tedium of moving cables around etc. They weren't "relegated" to doing that. That was just their job and they did it.

Computer science started with Alan Turing. There have been no major contributions by women.
That would be a motivation to believe yourself, or maybe to altruistically try to convert someone else, not to make the problem worse by getting someone else's burning started early.
They just moved a computationally intensive task to a much faster language. Not as large scale as moving everything from Rails to Scala in the case of Twitter for instance, but pretty standard is any large Rails application to use faster languages for performance sensitive tasks.
Simulation suggests 68 percent of the universe may not exist (2017)
What they sell should not be saleable?
rotated between novolog and humalog 10/ml vials quite a bit (insulin pump - don't use long acting) and they are priced identically.
How to build a WiFi picture frame with a Raspberry Pi
The Onion has an article on this https://www.theonion.com/find-the-thing-youre-most-passionat...
> I would definitely not want the government to be able to control what ideas/speech is allowed on these platforms and what isn't. Nor do I want a single entity (as Facebook/Twitter exist today) to have that control.

I have come to the admittedly sad conclusion that you can't reside in the middle here. I mean, you can idealistically, but slope will slide to one side or the other in practice. At least at this time I think you can ask for government interference or not. I would like to think that you could trust each side to know its boundaries, as we see in other regulated industries, but time has shown either side cannot. Which side would you want to give an inch to, because a mile will be taken (or according to some doomsayers it already has)?
Yet entrepreneurism is highest in the US, not countries with universal coverage.
I think the easiest way to do it wrong, is to close the file every time you finished your operation. With the default settings, this will sync and wait until the filesystem completes its operation. So unless you will close the file for a long time, keep it open. If you want to access the DB in a multi-threaded environment you better let one process manage the database.

I guess 90% or performance problems with SQLite come from the filesystem.
As someone who lived in NYC for 5 years, I can't understand how anyone can not consider this a loss to NYC. Don't get me wrong I hate corporate welfare as much as anyone else and I have no desire to work for Amazon because it seems like a corporate sweatshop, but 25k jobs at an average $100k+ salary would've been a boon to the city, even despite the $3 billion in tax subsidies. The additional revenue for workers and taxes would've been a huge boost to the economy and would've more than paid for itself.

The jobs would've been in Long-Island City, which is basically a glass tower condo ghost town with practically no office/business presence. The subway for people commuting into LIC for work is probably currently fairly empty, so the subway could accommodate them. (The same cannot be said of the reverse. Commuting from Astoria, Queens or Williamsburg, Brooklyn into Manhattan for work during rush hour is horrible).

I agree that politicians need to do a better job of accommodating those who are displaced by gentrification. NYC housing costs are insane (as someone else mentioned we undertax single-family homes and $100m penthouses), the subway is failing, etc.

Perhaps the deal would've gone through had politicians better communicated how the $3 billion subsidy package was not just a handout to Amazon but would actually improve the city and the well-being of its residents.

But given the city's failure to build affordable housing (not the "affordable housing" buzzword where luxury apartments are subsidized to low income people who enter a lottery, but doesn't actually meaningfully increase affordable housing stock) and fix the subway, maybe the city isn't capable of managing itself and stemming the pitfalls of gentrification, and so the opposition was fired up by this awareness. It seems that so long as fundamental aspects of NYC like its subway system are managed by NY State, we will never see any meaningful change at anything more than a snails-pace. Perhaps NYC should be fighting for independence from NY State to be in full control of its own destiny rather than being at the mercy of politicians in Albany with a poor track record of attending to the city's needs. (sorry I got derailed there a bit, just a stream of thought)
It is public to the other participants in the network.

"Customers" in this instance is in reference to the banks and businesses that would be apart of this Blockchain.

The "private" Blockchain is not private to the participants. IE, other banks.

This is bank to bank technology that is meant to replace the current settlement layer that banks currently use, but is quite slow.

IE, wire transfers between banks, that can be made much faster, and require less trust the current methods that banks transfer money between each other.

Right now settlement times between banks are high, or require that they trust some centralized, non transparent database.

This, on the other hand, reduces the trust necessary between banks.
Don't know if you're still following, but I think I grok the logic and explained it in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19153704

In addition to those comments, I should add, this may be socially-efficient in some non-trivial sense of the word:

1) There is legit value in a direct flight between two cities to people who "really" want to go between them.

2) You may not be able to fill up the planes for the A-B routes and B-C routes.

3) It is legitimately lower value, and thus should cost less, to provide carriage from A to C by putting someone on A-B then B-C, (vs a direct A-C route).

4) So, for an airline to capture the full value of the flights it provides, it needs to charge a high premium to people who really want to fly A-B or B-C, and, if it can't find enough people to fill the planes, to charge a discount to someone using the seats merely for a longer A-C trip.

In this scenario, with hidden city pricing:

1) People who get the direct routes pay more.

2) People who get an indirect route pay less.

3) All seats are utilized.

That coincides with our (or at least my) intuitive notion of what efficiency looks like.

So, who are you hurting when you get off at B with your cheap ticket? You're not paying your "fair[1] share", and thus making it harder to justify running that specific direct A-B route because it's harder to capture the full economic value of the route.

[1] yes, yes, "is a four-letter word" and all...
Typically the cost reduction expected is due to eliminating rent seekers.
This is a great conversation. Cloudflare certainly sees the value of the patent system, we have a number of our own patents that we employ defensively to make sure we can continue to run our business securely.
The wheel isn't the hard part. The hard part is the axle bearings.
You two were actually saying the same thing.
> Your dismissal is not a counterargument.

Oh sorry, I didn't mean to dismiss. I was trying to say that if your conclusion/mechanism to enact change depends on the success of convincing individual people do take action, it is unlikely to succeed for these reasons:

- People converse slowly, especially on awkward topics like privacy. Opinions change slowly.

- Propaganda and willingness of huge corporations to try to alter public opinion is huge, growing and already very intense. There is little historical analogue for it because so much power is concentrated so tightly now, with tools that completely change the balance of power (like AI, big data analytics, etc).

> They may or may not work every time.

Right. But we only have 1 shot at this and it needs to work. Our systems have already failed and our society is suffering because of it. Our government is not stable, our emotions are proudly directly manipulated by corporations, and we are hurting because of it.

We must regulate because we cannot afford future losses of this magnitude.
Since this is technically not legal, i wonder what percent get taken by customs
It's an admirable and seductive goal that I can identify with. I've been tangentially in the film & TV business from the 'enabling tech' side and have enjoyed having exposure to it.

An approach you could think about is to decide what value you are going to uniquely bring to the table in the early phases of a creative media project and focus on developing proof points of that. One angle could be your tech and management skills amplifying the investment and passion you bring. Personally, I rarely see investment capital as the fundamental limiting constraint, thus suggest you might not want to focus on that as your primary value.

When you said "I know nothing about this business", I thought two things. First, it's great that you know you don't know. Second, it's likely you may have a bad time as an investor until you build more domain expertise. As an angel investor, I've learned my judgement tends to be far more accurate when I focus on areas I have expertise in. Additionally, I can also provide help to positively influence the outcome.
Do you really think only a minority oppose animal cruelty? How many people are proponents of animal cruelty? Neither of us have data to back it up but if you polled people I think the majority would be against animal cruelty, they just wouldn't spend their time opposing it, that's the difference.
At least not in China.
Another "record" multi-million dollar fine?
RDS has read replicas and a process to promote to master that's just as easy as Heroku.
Ctrl-f `kids`, `children`, `family`

Nothing. Next!
Yep, sometimes a good puzzle needs a spherical chicken to be tractable.
Hmmm... as someone who came from Canada, I find the quality of care in the US superior to what I got in Canada.
Orange – machine learning and data visualization toolbox
I think OOPS as a paradigm is pretty well defined without my laying it out. The facts are that Lisp did not have OOPS at the beginning but it's easy to add, and that's one of the greatest strengths of Lisp as a programming language. You can build any programming concepts from modern languages that you want -- but you aren't constrained by any of them.
I thought about this a while ago. And while I have about 5 really solid ideas already I want to make time to execute... if I didn't here is what I would do.

I would go out and take part time jobs in all sorts of industries. Go be a landscaper for 2 weeks. Ride shotgun in a trucking rig for 2 weeks. Tag along with a surgeon for a day or two. I think that I would leave with a ton of ideas.

There is (was at least) even a website where you can pay others to apprentice them for a "day in the life", some are talented, some are celebrities.

Think of when kids play, if there are toys everywhere they will end up combining the ideas in different ways. But if the toys are boxed up and put away in between different experiences, they might never put toy A and toy B together, draining them of potential creativity.

The noise equals creative opportunity. Get some more noise!
Even ESR himself praised them a short while ago.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8242
> What a pain in the ass it would be if you had 4 different twitter equivalents that you were trying to use.. or try to remember "oh friend A is on twitter1, Friend B is on twitter3" etc.

It can be solved with interoperability. If it is not a problem for mobile networks - phone calls and text messages, why would it be problem for social networks?
Using life expectancy to measure quality of health care is like using income to measure how smart you are. There may be some relationship, but too many confounding factors for it to be useful at all.
What's wrong with pointing a camera at a public space?
Remember that ideas are abundant, solid user experiences and then lastly execution is the key.
Multibillion this time, but yes.
Thanks.. I might take you up on the offer to contact you if I need more info/advise.
I know, but I shouldn't have to. This simply doesn't scale well.
Weird that they didn't say which browser is which :/
For the big pharmaceutical companies, about 20% of revenues are spent on R&D. So you just paid $1000 out of pocket for a drug? About $200 of that is funneled back into R&D.
What is your source for that claim?
So you still have an FB account because "it doesn't make any difference?" Is that you're argument?
> I would much rather let the market produce alternatives products

Please identify how "alternatives" can displace an entrenched monopoly without regulatory interference?

Is your solution just wait for FB to fail?

A smart regulation would simply to require transparency or as someone mentioned elsewhere in another comment, a requirement for federation using some standard - ie, removing those monopoly barriers.
Tried that. They didn't seem to care.
HN loves bashing Facebook and the Citizen Lab story did get some discussion on the front page. I think HN has so many problems with discoverability in general and this particular subproblem (if it exists) is not even the biggest one. BTW, you can add something like ?please_give_me_a_second_chance to URLs to bypass dupe detection, but if you abuse it then other factors may kick in.
Easy.. package theft alone probably costs Amazon millions every year. If more customers have a doorbell camera that captures motion activity, more thieves can be caught, and the less theft will happen. It's actually a very good pairing.
Will you folks please stop breaking the internet?

And by that, I mean forcing javascript bullshit on HTTP GET requests? Get requests are definitionally idempotent, and shouldn't require me to run garbage and deal with recaptcha.
U.S. fund sells Israeli hacking firm NSO Group amid spy mystery
We have kept records of the power we've consumed, the power we've generated, the cost of the system and the cost of repairs/maintenance (one panel and one inverter so far over its lifetime).

For the financial analysis we assumed the money would be committed to paying for power one way or the other, there isn't really an option for putting it aside in the mutual fund so the 'invest' option was off the table. With the use of a current measuring system[1] we also have time of day usage numbers which is an option that helps people who aren't home during the day. In our case there is always someone in the house so the tiered rate metering was the only rate schedule we needed to consider[2].

With this information we can calculate the total money would would have spent just paying for power from PG&E and making no change, to the money we spent on the system install ($20,000) and the subsequent money we paid to PG&E for power and for their meter reading service. A bit more than 11 years after the install the total money spent over the period was less for the solar option. Our current annual electricity spend is about $420 (that is $120 for their meter reading + about $300 in additional KWh of energy above what we generate) vs roughly $3000/year or average $250 a month. Effectively $2600 a year is not being spent. If I were a min-maxer then I'd be putting that money into a mutual fund and it would start compounding and well, then the difference would start to look ridiculous.

[1] "The Energy Detective" -- http://www.theenergydetective.com/

[2] While it is true we could have changed further things about our lifestyle to fit into other rate schedules that avenue wasn't pursued.
Previous discussion on HN [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16454645
This is super helpful. Agreed with other comments about making this available more readily on the DO Managed DB pages.

Having looked through the set of extensions, wal2json (https://github.com/eulerto/wal2json). That makes sense since there's no way at the moment to get access to replication.

However, the use case for wal2json in addition to the access to replication is that it's the best way that I know of to get reliable change notifications from the database. I personally use this to pipe the JSON blobs into message queues to be consumed by applications.

As a short aside, I don't use PostgreSQL's NOTIFY/LISTEN because, as I understand it, you will not receive messages if there are no connections to the DB -- this is a show stopper for me.

AWS RDS allows this and Google's PostgreSQL does not. I've personally abandoned Google's version first partly because it seems to have stalled in terms of upgrades, and AWS for being way too expensive for what you get. Although it doesn't work for me at the moment, I'm hoping the DO option will work for me in this regard in the not so distant future.
A year ago, I got very interested in a science-history topic that spans much of the 19th-century. Within a couple of days, I managed to find dozens of rare, original, on-topic, illustrated, computer-searchable source volumes on IA.

If there's another single library in the world that has all of those (PD) works, it's probably far away from the chair I never had to leave.
That's not quite right though (and I fault their PR people for not explaining this). The token can be exchanged between any party on the blockchain (which afaik is not JPMC-only). You only need to transact through JPMC to exchange the token for USD.
It makes sense to separate what we want to achieve and how we gonna do it. You may actually have several WIP MRs for one ticket.
It sounds like the solution should be that patients can opt for cheaper, worse treatments, if they do not like that the more recent treatments are also more expensive.
> You began by suggesting that the cities I mentioned weren't in the Midwest

Because I agree the midwest has a low CoL. But people are moving to cities like LA, which don't. Even cities like Denver are starting to experience large CoL increases, so I'm not even really sure what your point is.

> My point, now as then, was that places such as the cities I mentioned are increasingly attracting the best tech sector job applicants

What are you basing this on? It seems silly to assume that the population growth in these cities is entirely tech-driven.

> New Yorkers ought to take the time to ask why that is

Why?

> Ask yourself, why are places like Nashville growing so much?

Why do low cap stocks sometimes grow explosively compared to high cap stocks?

Answer: When you're smaller, it's easier to grow at faster rates.

> I don't know many people who move back to NYC.

I do, so I guess we're at an impasse here.

> If New York companies want to attract the best job applicants, then they ought to think about what else they can offer

Large salaries, obviously. Opportunities, if you want that. Tim Hockey lives in the NYC area, not Omaha.
I mean, Veganism is the easiest way of avoiding animal cruelty.
So you're not willing to quit FB in you're own? You want the government to make it ok for you? Is that what you're saying?
> "maybe the city isn't capable of managing itself and stemming the pitfalls of gentrification"

You seem to understand pretty well why some are not seeing this as a loss after all.
I agree. My point is that people go into it thinking the realtor knows what they are doing. And they probably do in general. But there are a lot of blind spots.

Also, an earlier poster said that inspectors are highly motivated to protect you. I can only offer anecdotes, but my experience was that realtors liked some inspectors more than others. All inspectors probably know they have to tell you about big problems. Some are really thorough about all issues including small ones. Realtors, who want to get the deal done, hate the nitpicky inspectors. But nitpicky is good for negotiating. I am no expert, I am just sharing my impression.
It's a fine analogy used in the way they used it. Drawing attention to yourself for a decision you know is going to be controversial only makes it more controversial and draws out even louder criticism.
It should be noted your opinion is contrary to every survey covering this topic I've ever seen.
Thankfully no. But they haven't seemed to have deleted my number from their phone number list either.
Possible! But there's also the whole "gambling is addicting" thing. Some of these games pray on the vulnerable to make their dough.

Alternatively, it also leverages the rich vs poor divide. In gacha games for example, you'll have a very small minority of players pouring as much as several thousand dollars into a game, while the majority plays for free. The game still ends up coming out ahead than if they sold at an affordable price and had everyone paying it instead.