skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, the problem isn't people hoarding money, the problem is doing so outside of a banking system, where such money is put to work in investments.

If the economy is growing in the long term and the supply of money is constant, the value of money (vs. goods) will always increase, and everyone has an incentive to hold currency instead of investing in the economy.

The result is that you can't raise capital for a startup or for an infrastructure project.
Hi everyone, this is Hessie Jones. I wrote the piece on Forbes. I'll go through your comments today! Love that this is sparking discussion. Cheers!
> I don’t know about an alternative web, but something will happen with Twitter, Google, Facebook upping their censorship game more and more.

Why do you think something will happen? All three platforms have a 'pro-leftwing' and 'anti-rightwing' bias, which also aligns with most of the mainstream media. As a result, their censorship is supported by a good majority of the population
Ok, we agree. "As credible as" implies uniform "credibility". "More compatible than" implies non-uniform "compatibility". Without any clear definition of "credibility" or "compatibility" it's impossible to interpret precisely what are those claims supossed to mean.
Seconded. We've heard a lot about the astronauts and The Right Stuff. Would love to hear more about the Right Engineering. :-)
There's also no reason not to ;).
But njalla isn't a registrar, they're a reseller.
Maybe it exists so people think Mac OS is insecure?
Qatar airline is not bad either, though not as good as Emirates. Jet used to be good, not sure now, with all their financial woes
May I ask what’s an Omerta?
> "many of the engineers working on the original handset didn’t even know what it would eventually look like"

This is a stretch. Guaranteed that if you are working on just chips then you might be living in just your own silo.
Yeah, there's so many ways this could happen. The one that came to mind for me was an engineer who thought passwords were being filtered by the time it got to their part of the stack, but somehow didn't notice they weren't because the payload was minified or because they tested in a test environment where they knew there wasn't the filtering but didn't look at prod (where there was also not the filtering).

So many ways this could have gone down, so easy to do.
Exactly. Venture capital is not bad. There are pros and cons.
Thanks for saying that. That encourages me to keep writing.
To be fair. They are nicely made Foxconn phones.
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I want to come to this persons defense and say that if you own a single property and don't know rental laws really really well, you can get screwed over pretty easy. As with any field, the people who know the rules can screw over the ones that don't.
People that rent out a single property and then work a day job are running on a lot of trust and luck.
If a login form breaks because of an ad-blocker then the site is broken. Ad-blockers have a bigger market share than most browsers!
That is a much smaller issues than passwords stored in logs, because the people who have access to running tcpdump usually also have the ability to intercept traffic in other ways (e.g. by updating the application to log all traffic or by inspecting RAM). On the other hands access to logs is usually handed out to a much bigger group of people.
How the US Could Get Rid of the Electoral College
>I wasn't trying to defend that. I just saw your "it's pretty simple to..." and as someone close to the issue wanted to explain ways it's not that simple.

Oh, I thought you were the original poster I was replying to. Sorry about that. Regardless, it's not actually all that complicated at all. Catching all fraud is almost impossible. Catching 90-99% is dead simple. If you don't like my quick and dirty breakdown, make another - the problem's size needs to be 4 orders of magnitude larger before the cost implications become a concern.

That said, there's a very consistent pattern at play here: Organizations and groups that refuse to take action on the basis that they can't catch everything are consistently those that intentionally look the other way in respect of fraud, and digital advertising has a bad rep in this area for a reason: most networks ignore as much fraud as they can get away with.

In any event, locking out other networks doesn't change the fact that the excuse provided for exclusivity is about how many containers are around, not how many networks can bid on that inventory. The rationale for the illegal activity doesn't address the problem at all.
I kinda hope that perhaps, if CBS doesn't find value in doing a TNG-level remaster of DS9 and Voyager, that something like this might give them a "good enough" version for a Blu-ray release. At the very least, one could imagine using this technique where applicable to at least, massively cut down the conversion cost in scenarios where re-cutting the scene would be particularly cost prohibitive.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19439862
Street Fighter 4 had a feature kinda like that (with predefined selectable styles). AFAIK it was not popular. Sometimes my friends would turn it on as a joke.
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Well if you hire enough people, and you're not 100% successful at selecting the good ones... Also even good people make mistakes at times. Almost impossible to prevent. The most actionable thing you can do is build less things, and focus on using of the shelve micro services (either in-house or third party) for everything
Thanks for injecting this sanity. People often to look to technology to solve something. At best, it can solve things temporarily. At worst, it introduces new ways for people to be cruel. (Twitter, facebook, etc)

What all of us can do is modify our behavior. This can mean building websites with currently-existing technology, or just turning off the computer more often.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omertà
I mean, if they fix the problem, why would you be upset the government wasn't involved? If the problem persists, we can always have the conversation again. Barring anything else, government solutions tend to be inflexible (which is a feature, but should be much more selectively used).
At least in the northeast corridor (basically the only place in the US where trains are usable as transportation), there are "quiet cars" as well.
You're not the only one. Firefox uses way too much GPU power on MBPs. Supposedly fixes are in the works, but I doubt they will happen any time soon. I've learned to tune out the 'improvements to performance' claimed by Firefox releases because never actually do anything for MBP users.

Like you, it is one of the main things keeping me to Chrome (although pinch-to-zoom and casting are nice, too).

My solution for Chrome's privacy issues are similar to yours, except I use the full sync for bookmarks, but then I switch to a private window for actually using any Google site (except for search). At the end of the day, it's still a huge compromise. I might try going full Chromium for a while and trying your bookmarks method, although plugins are a bit of a PITA.
I have no issues with the latest Firefox on my 2012 MBP.
Do you know what is user acquisition?
Hard to answer without more details- there are a ton of negative signs here but with the whole crypto market down, this might also be a good opportunity. Contact details in my profile if you want to chat with a crypto founder about it.
I'm working with Rails and Phoenix on two different projects right now and all of them filter out passwords in the log files [1] [2].

I'm also working on a Django project but we're not logging HTTP calls arguments there. I think we could use a filter like [3] but I'd rather have the framework to automatically take care of that.

And if I'd be writing a web app from scratch, no matter if I've been doing web for 25 years, I'm sure I'll do a lot of silly mistakes. That's why I prefer to build on top of frameworks.

[1] https://guides.rubyonrails.org/configuring.html#rails-genera...

[2] https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/Phoenix.Logger.html

[3] https://djangosnippets.org/snippets/2966/
Sorry, the phrase risk/rewards was a trigger. I know acquaintances that drive in the carpool lane because they can afford to pay the fine if caught, and brag about it. You seemed to fall in that camp (vs thinking about higher level, heavily debated laws like the ones about homosexuality), but clearly that wasn't the case!
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I agree that Greek might not be the best for people with a different linguistic background. By the way, did you mean Galois Theory? If it's OK to ask, what other languages do you speak mainly besides English?
People are using this same technique for old games - https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/18/machine-learning-is-rescu...
Extremely unreliable; I've only taken the Lake Shore Limited and California Zephyr, so I can't speak for the whole thing, but I'd say I had cell reception about half the time, maybe less.
>The following morning, White conceded defeat and explained the technical error that had led to the failure. “Well done everyone – the site crashed because calculating the trending count became too much of a load on the database.” //

The reasoning seems spurious, is not that difficult for a db to keep a row count .. and of it were then you could do that out of bounds.

1k updates per minute it's surely not that much traffic for a national site; I wonder what max-load they designed for? If 1M users hit it in a work day then that's 2k users a minute, which seems to be quite a reasonable normal level to design for (there are many petitions, you want to cope with a few being popular on any day; maybe 10k user max load??).

The db is just going to be something like petition index+user index.

Is the reason given just bluster?
> If true, then 2000 people decided not to raise the alarm

Have you ever worked at a software co, discovered <terrible software practice>, raised a flag, and were told "thanks, we've added a ticket to the backlog"?

I'd bet that some of them did flag it.
100ms+ feels worse in this kind of thing compared to 100ms ping to a multiplayer server because even if you have bad ping to a server the game still records your inputs locally and feels responsive. More realistically it will be more like 180ms+ on a home connection.

I was an OnLive user when it existed earlier in the decade and I would say that it felt generally fine in games with forgiving timers that were not all that hard. In any game that is challenging, this kind of lag even in single player games can be very frustrating, and you might as well not even think about multiplayer because it will be a much worse experience than playing on a 56K modem in the late 1990s.

The old Assassin's Creed games were a great fit for the technology because nothing required a reaction time of under 1000 ms and movement did not require a lot of fine adjustments. Anything turn based is also a great fit for this kind of technology.

Even Steam Link wireless in the same house over a good router has annoying input lag that may not be immediately noticeable until you compare it to a wired connection or using the PC itself.

Another big issue with this in the US is that only rich people are going to have the quality of connection you would need to enjoy this at good quality. And if you are rich, spending like $1k on a budget gaming PC or a few hundred bucks on a console are going to be pretty reasonable. No one would be dumb enough to spend $300/month+ on a high bandwidth connection so that they can stream games to potato hardware.

On the other hand, if high bandwidth connections were ubiquitous in the US as they are in some other developed countries at an affordable price, the calculus would be totally different.
I live a few blocks from that train, so I wind up taking it all the time to get to the mall or downtown. The novelty wears off, and you wind up mostly worried about having to share your ride with packs of unruly teenagers, or sports fans heading downtown who can't resist saying racist things about our various African immigrant neighbors. It's a pleasure or a drag, depending on the manners of those who share the ride.
Corollary: Most web development simply lack the rigor of engineering.
Interesting analogy and I see your point. If a car manufacturer's process made it easy to install the brakes wrong they would be held responsible (probably with a recall or damages for lives lost due to faulty brakes).

I guess part of this is that passwords aren't considered that important to many people :(
In a new quantum simulator, light behaves like a magnet
I use google voice to screen my calls, if there was a way on iOS to disable calls not via Google Voice on my phone that would probably solve the robo call problem for me.
Long story in short description:

Python isn't slow.
Programming languages aren't slow or fast but interpreters are.

cpython is slow. PyPy interpreter is reasonably faster, upto 8 times.

Recently pypy 7.0 released which brought more hope.

http://speed.pypy.org
Knowing I was going to miss the last "Baby Bullet" out of SF to San Jose because a meeting ran late was one of the biggest kick in the guts. I do not miss that commute at all.
People using cryptocurrency will rediscover and re-invent all the institutions that are required to run an economy and have a currency: banks, regulations, courts, enforcement, proof of identity...
Yes, you would in America. It's a question of simple geometry and perspective. I haven't ridden TGV, but I'm guessing you're talking about smaller things, probably man-made ones (e.g. buildings), maybe trees, relatively close to the train. You're not going to see anything like that when riding a train across Montana. Instead, you're going to see enormous wide-open natural spaces, with absolutely nothing really close to the train. So even at a speed 2-4x that of Amtrak's, you'll see it just fine.
The Scientific Method Is a Virus
There is no WiFi on Amtrak trains--you'd have to tether to your phone. And for most Amtrak routes, you'd be going through some significant service deadzones (depending on the route, you could be in the middle of a mountain wilderness).

But I can't think of a better workcation spot if you can be offline periodically. For me, the train is simultaneously relaxing and stimulating, a perfect place to zone in on work while still embarking on an adventure.

Edit: Apparently there is WiFi on some Amtrak trains, but I wouldn't count on it.
> Would any serious game studio use style transfer ml to actually replace their visual artists?

No, a serious (AAA) studio would not. OTOH, the platform might intend to support producers that aren't AAA studios, and whose limited pre-release resources are focussed on gameplay more than art assets, and those producers might view it very differently than AAA studios.
> somewhere between ismyideafunnyyet.xyz

The blog post doesn't make that distinction, nor does it seem like the author really cares. That's precisely my point. Is it a moral obligation for amazon to build their services so everyone can use them? There's probably a strong case there.

I think we need to draw a few clear lines. Some websites are inherently tied to one medium and don't make sense beyond it, others should be viewed as a piece of art, just like a drawing or a piece of music.
What I find more in more in life is that those that get ahead are doing so by not doing things the right way. We have such a large population now that it seems those at the top have got there because they have done something wrong in order t get there.
This requires a lot of things which aren't obvious:

1) the person to realize the site is broken because of something on their end (as opposed to the site being broken because of something "on the internet")

2) the person to realize the cause of the breakage is ublock

3) the person to be able to find the ublock logo (not always obvious; some browsers hide extensions, sometimes people don't know where to look, sometimes they don't know "the little red shield" == "the ad blocker causing my problems")

4) the person to understand what the big power symbol does - if you only click the ublock logo, it's not obvious to a layperson that the power symbol is a button

5) the person to be comfortable clicking the button, and not more afraid of "breaking the internet" than they are desiring to fix the issue

I do informal tech support for family members who could not get past steps 1 or 2, even if I've explained it to them. We who spend our lives on the Internet take a lot of the things we grok about it for granted, but someone who only occasionally uses a computer won't necessarily have the foundation to make the connections we do when faced with a problem like this.
... which is why sam told you to take that deal as it makes sense to take it.
> that makes me wonder, isn't health, intelligence, or personality usually how we qualify "beauty" anyway?

No, you're thinking of "attractive". "Beautiful" generally refers to having a pleasant physical appearance, and studies on the topic usually measure it through having people rate photos. Health is the only one of the three that has a direct effect, since it's obviously correlated with physical attractiveness.
> No, you can't, you need to create a new "currency" to do so.

You are confusing "fraction-reserve banking" with something else, probably "quantitative easing".

There is no requirement to create currency with fractional-reserve banking: A bank simply loans out a fraction of its reserves, which has the effect of creating money, but only in the sense of increasing M1. M0 remains constant.
I believe ,,let's change the world'' was most of the time a way for employers/shareholders to make employees work insane hours.

Elon Musk is changing the world, works insane hours, but still lives the billionaire lifestyle by lending against his Tesla stock, while the other employees just get the insane hours part.
Because the moment people aren't focused on the issue, it will return.
I wholeheartedly agree on the "People are different" part. I for one am never able to process information and write it down. It's always either thinking about the content or "copying down curvy lines that purposely mean something". The worst lectures for me were when the teacher / professor forced us to copy down the lectures, even though they had perfect lecture preparations they could have just uploaded online. Or teachers that gave us the homework of copying down these pages of vocabularies because "only then you will remember them".

If you remember only one thing about teaching: There are multitudes of learning styles and only a minority of students will have similar ones than you. Probably, the (as I imagine) magical experience of remembering after writing something down is so intense that it is hard to let that feeling go and let others have their different styles.

Edit: Xi was the worst for me, too. I think the standard letter form as portrayed in print does not lend itself to quick handwriting. Also, if I compare how much time is spend in elementary school teaching how to efficiently write the Latin alphabet to how there is no introduction in university regarding the Greek alphabet (except if you are lucky a complete table with their pronunciation), it is almost ludicrous. Yes, we are all adults at that point in time, but for some reason I still didn't get the idea to google for "how to write greek letters efficiently" back then [1][2].

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+write+greek+letters+efficie...

[2] https://www.foundalis.com/lan/hw/grkhandw.htm
Common showers, but this wasn't a problem at all for us.

The NY<->Chicago line had toilets in the compartment - but I mean in the compartment, not a separate bathroom. So not so great.

The California Zephyr (Chicago<->SF) has common toilets. The one in our sleeper car was broken for the whole trip, for which Amtrak only gave us the slightest nod of recognition.
This is not trivial. Even a pure monetarist admits monetary velocity into this equation. If we lived in a universe where the price of Bitcoin would always increase in a reliable fashion, then it is straightforward to integrate that information into the current price of Bitcoin based on prevailing interest rates.

There is simply no such thing as an asset that will always increase in value -- _that_ is trivial.
Earlier in the thread:

>Because there's two types of storing passwords in plain text. There's the "your password is stored in plaintext in the database" way which everyone agrees is 10 different kinds of stupid, and then there's the "we accidentally logged the body of all requests that went through this system, and it turns out login requests came through here" kind.

Basically the conscious decision to store passwords in plain text is worse than unintentionally doing so in logs. One is purposeful, one is not. Yes it's bad, but it's not as bad as if it was done on purpose. And generally, this how most laws are enforced or implemented.
Well, io-related problems can be solved even better by using gevent.

The io-related problems I had with paramiko, on the other hand - last time I checked could neither be solved with threads or gevent.

So that’s a weak point to be made anyway.
The problem doesn't appear until you start implementing register allocation.
Onlive - required other people's infrastructure and a hardware play, and a software client.

Playstation Now - required Sony to buy/use a cloud service, maintain it, and expensive Sony hardware just as a force of habit.

Google - negligible instance running on their existing infrastructure, maintained under existing processes, playable on chromecasts already in hotels and homes everywhere, alongside browsers and mobile devices.

If Google doesn't shut it down within the 5 years for people to notice this is even an option, they could focus more on titles and developers more than any other entrant to this market.

And perhaps the gaming is just the application to get people's attention.
I run both. They allow me to mentally partition things on desktop.

On Android, FF is my default and I open Chrome when I need to. Firefox on Android supports uMatrix / uBlock.
"Venture capital gets so much attention in the media that it’s easy to forget that it’s not actually necessary."

I'm running a small bootstrapped company and am helping a friend's project with fundraising. Some of my friends are also VCs in London, so I see both sides of the table.
Very often I am part of discussions about fundraising with founders who barely have any traction with their products but are obsessed with fundraising.

I wish there are more stories about actual product building instead of people closing funding rounds.
I didn't do this but it has crossed my mind... The fastest way to end robocalls forever:

Sign up every damn congressional seat's phone number to ever scammy health insurance, hotel timeshare and PC help desk website's contact me form.
I'm also an ignorant american, but I've traveled Europe for months by rail and air.

By american standards, both methods are dirt cheap.

Ryanair cuts every cost you can imagine. No free water or pretzels, tiny seating area, no first class, outskirts airports, no checked or carry on, tarmac boarding.

On trains you get sufficient space to stretch your legs, a power outlet, wifi, unlimited baggage etc. and you get to arrive and depart in the city center.

I think the pricing is based upon consumer value more than service costs.
Yeah, that's why I compared it to a cruise ship. But on the cruise ship, the food is probably a lot better, you have lots of activities on board (games, casinos, gym, massage parlor, fancy restaurants, shows, concerts, swimming pool, tennis court, etc.) and lots of space to walk around, and it stops at several ports of call during the trip. With the train, you get none of that, maybe a few short stops in rural towns on the way but not long enough to get off. I guess if you want to spend your whole vacation just sitting down and looking out a window, it's ok...
What bold move are they taking if they are using other people’s money?