skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in this space and I am hard pressed to see where blockchain could improve patient control of data. The real problem that I have is that health data rules and workflows are completely unlike any other type of data I have worked with. Ownership of data, attribution of information, interoperability, all of these elements are context dependent.
Centralised, independent storage of information so that all healthcare providers (with the patient's permission) can access critical records is a much simpler solution. It is still complex, but at least you don't have the byzantine bullshit of the blockchain sitting beneath it.
You're being disingenuous. Please stop.

> Margarine was preferred because it was thought that the saturated fat in butter was going to clog your arteries and kill you.
Oh, yes, I hear you on being present for 10 min of a 1 hr meeting. Your presence is absolutely valuable for the entirety of the hour meeting, even though it’s not clear from the outset where precisely during that time those 10 min will be valuable.

I guess that’s what I mean; it’s not necessarily obvious when is work time and when is not. Even as you’re posting on HN during your meeting as you understand it is not valuable for you to be 100% “present” and it would be more valuable to explore ideas and culture on HN as you listen, so it is also true that many will be working on ideas as they eat dinner with their families, solving problems while they sleep, and planning their dependency graph during their commute. I just don’t think “hours worked” is an honest metric any more than 4 years at college shows that you were anything more than present.

Those 4 years could have been rigorous and honest and intense and valuable with a B average to show for it, or you could have been partying and have an A for your effort. Time spent might be required, but it also doesn’t matter.
Hiring manager here: we talk about the opportunity cost of interviewing a lot.
> Okay, let’s see: how does that benefit me in real, tangible terms?

It allows you to store and transfer value in situations where you either cannot obtain, or do not trust your available banking relationships. You also have much, much lower fees for international remittance.

> What risks does it have - for example, do users take on responsibility for fraud risk?

It has two primary risks:

- Transaction finality. This is a positive and a negative, of course.
- Risk that you improperly handle your private key and have your funds stolen.
It's safe to say Satoshi is dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(computer_scientist...
You can spend bitcoin. With regards to the two-intermediaries point though, that can be preferable to the one in some situations (e.g. international remittance).
Nesting is bad, because moving any element would break your style. And there's also performance impact.

I found scoped css like component or BEM just make sense, which only encourage you nest one level in block namespace.
After years of less frequent use, I finally quit after the 2016 election. I'm so much better off without it, you can do it too!
The article doesn't cover much of the history and mystery behind the Jason group. They were the stuff of conspiracy theory lore when I was younger.
Yes they do: https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/kaios/26000006/?category=5245235
SoftBank and Alphabet tie up on flying 5G stations using balloons and drones
About time. Bitfinex has been suspected of serious fraud for at least a year.
This might be the only video of most if not all of the ID team at Apple [1]. I've been following Apple since I was 16 or 17 and I think in that time they've been pretty anonymous in the Apple story. Found a photo of them [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEW4D_CERkE

[2] https://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Apple_I...
Yeah, I know what you are saying... But let's just let somebody try this experiment (and somebody eventually will), and we can judge what can or cannot be learned by the results.

We will definitely get a great code autocompleter at the very least..
Fraud is a risk with other financial technologies too.
Please dont ruin your present to become financially independent. I know people who cut their own hairs and do a whole lot of stuff to micro optimize their savings. That kind of lifestyle is just not worth it.

As long as you're being mindful of being cash flow +ve and save some $ for rainy day, you're good.

I Started with

1. Emergency fund (6months+ expenses or whatever you're comfortable with),
2. 401(k) / IRA (if you're employer provides it),
3. indexing (simple plain old vanguard low fee fund).

thats about it, nothing more.

I am a chase private client, own a house and could probably retire within next 3 yrs or sooner if I really wanted to... I dint think of FI all the time, it just happened.
Have you? If so, why do you need to invest in unregulated financial institutions?
It's a hard pill to swallow. So I bought a paramotor, might as well enjoy the time there is. It does seem faster than expected.
With all these high profile big dollar lawsuits it’s almost as if New York is grasping at straws to find funding.
At least 10% annually and give another 10% at least to charity.

I liked to put some in stocks I already had decided on, but also a bit in cash, then when there was a panic and prices dropped, I grabbed a bunch of things I already had and knew were solid. Not a gambler, just an observer that likes a bargain and is patient.
Yeah I used to think this too at one point, but it's much easier to just have multiple companies share a database- the idea that a consortium chain is somehow better than this hasn't born out empirically so far, in my opinion. Things are different with true public blockchains, they really do have some novel use cases.
I don’t want to dwell on this matter, quite frankly because I don’t find that Stallman is worth it. But I don’t feel like you understood my post, which is possibly a failure on my part for not having been clear enough.

You touched on “things that seem arbitrary” twice, but that wasn’t part of my point at all. Neither were most of your arguments. I don’t think Stallman’s behaviour is arbitrary, I think it’s harmful to his alleged goals.

> I think we're blessed to have at least one "full RMS". How does shooting for 50% RMS for everyone else sound?

Above all, that’s what heightened my certainty you did not absorb the meaning I intended for my point. The answer to that question is the premisse of my post. “How does shooting for 50% RMS for everyone else sound?”. It sounds awful. The Stallman we already have could even drop a few points.
How do you prove anything to a court about who owns a copyright? You present what evidence you have and marshal what arguments you can, and hope that the person in the right prevails.

As your own links indicate, animals have no more copyrights any more than a computer program would because they are not human, and copyright is explicitly granted to human creative efforts.
For those of you wondering why ifixit is being so "kind" to Samsung with the takedown, here's my opinion (I have worked in silicon valley smart phone supply chain).

Most likely the person who provided ifixit the phone did not think Samsung would request them back. Samsung did request it back and now they are in a jam, risking losing access to future devices. Ifixit doesn't want to lose their source of prerelease devices or burn their partner.
> Decentralized, anonymized reputation management. Imagine an ebay score that couldn't be owned by ebay, or any another company

This reputation system is one application I'd really like to see in the future. It's silly that we have sepearte silos of reputation (eBay, Amazon, credit scores, etc.) that are each controlled by a company. In our increasingly global world, who would we trust to govern this system? Seems like a legitimate application for a blockchain (including consensus).
Unheard of. This is why in the US we have the 1st amendment backed by the 2nd amendment. The freedom of speech can't defend itself.

What needs regulation is ISPs and companies that deal with personal data.
May be of interest to some: In recent years healthcare has adopted centralized PKI in the Direct project. https://www.directtrust.org/
10% to charity? I don't think that is realistic at all.
This may be 100% unrelated/wrong:

Check out "OZ49 Corporation". It has some shared directors with some other Panama crypto companies, and a director name Oz:

https://opencorporates.com/companies/pa/155664811
I am not a financial advisor, but... start with 10%. Use high-interest savings accounts if you need to dip into the money unpredictably. Use term deposits if you'll need to access the money in a year (shares might dip in that time). Use index funds if you won't need the money for a decade (index funds aren't very risky at that time horizon). And start putting away money for your kids the moment they're born, find something that tax-effectively allows you to transfer the money into their name when they turn 20ish without some form of capital gains on their behalf. Consider spreading it around to some different accounts so that if one investment goes under you don't lose the lot.
> I know people who cut their own hairs

I've had my partner cut my hair for many years; this was less time investment than going to a stylist.

Now I just shave it.

For some it's fine. If someone wants to have it styled that is great too.
Just wanted to say I love this advice.
And History Channel in the US has a historical fiction based upon the declassified Project Bluebook files. Only one season so far, but I found it interesting.

Not having read the files themselves, I have no idea of the accuracy of the show to the files. But, the show has been interesting and entertaining to me. X Files reminiscent, but based on real reports.

Seems they're trying to take actual real world UFO/alien encounter reports and wrap them into a fictional conspiracy (well, theoretical conspiracy) to make for an entertaining show.

It also happens to star Aiden Gillen (Little Finger/Lord
Baelish in Game of Thrones).
> It's almost like unregulated financial institutions have a tendency to screw over their customers...

Regulated institutions are great
at it too.
Mining too
The sci-fi fan inside me badly wants this to be an alien encounter. I am holding on to life just so that I get to witness humanity's first encounter with extra terrestrial intelligence. But that's probably unlikely.
apples and oranges. totally different conditions.
Love your product. It's the backbone of our distributed remote startup.
Consensus is certainly not a necessary element of a blockchain. A blockchain can just as easily exist under the control of a central authority, as it could under any other circumstances. Unless you mean that you’re still achieving consensus by simply trusting the central authority, which I guess is technically correct, but that’s not how ‘consensus’ is generally used in relation to blockchains, it’s generally used to refer to trustless distributed consensus.
Im on a Pixel 2, so I get fast updates. But I almost wish they were slower, or would just stop breakimg things and removing features. My phone, after more than a year of great service, starting dropping calls in my house again. I poked around and realized they removed the option to prefer Wi-Fi calling. So now because it can get a weak cellular signal, it ignores my strong Wi-Fi and I get much crappier services a result. #$&@!
Nesting is only an asset with thoughtful consistency. There are so many different ways to organize a stylesheet with nesting it can easily become unruly. But I like it now because I've found a method that works for me while also cleaning up my html.

In some cases I can preclude the necessity of having to declare class names.

section {

h1 {},

p {},

img {},

}

In other cases I have an index with easy-to-find classes.

.hero {

.gradient {},

.description {},

.signup {},

}

EDIT: I meant to reply to a different comment but oh well.
DevOps toolchain you've got covered. Your pipelines are pretty neat.

One thing I really like about GitLab is seeing pipeline errors in the merge request. For instance, we have rspec bubble up failures and they're right there in the test summary on the merge request. GitLab shows us a check failed, but we have to click through to Circle CI to see what the actual failures were.

One thing GitHub does well is the idea of checks. The entire pipeline in GitLab is a binary pass or fail. To see which bits failed, you have to dig into the pipeline.

Would be great to see that (similar to test results) in the merge request, in a similar way that GitHub checks are displayed.

Our typical DevOps set up is Jira for issues, GitHub for source and peer reviews. The pull requests are set up to include a few things like Quality (usually Code Climate), CI (usually Circle CI, sometimes Buildkite), a security auditor, a dependency auditor etc. At the other end, we use a service like Codefresh or whatnot to handle deployment to our environments.

Obviously, GitLab does all this in one ALM, which makes it closer to Azure DevOps than GitHub for direct feature comparisons, so this is more about the source code peer review through merge/pull requests than other aspects of the ALM process.

In GitHub pull requests, when checks fail, we get immediate visibility right on the pull request screen which checks failed, rather than having to go into the pipeline to look at jobs.

From a DevOps perspective, GitLab far exceeds GitHub (obviously). From idea to code, to review to build and publish is great. The pipelines (as I said above) are good.

I'd just like more integration points in the merge request process for external services to augment the functionality provided out of the box, such as Code Climate, Hound, Dependabot, LGTM/GuardRails/Snyk etc. Whilst you can wire these up (kinda) yourself - you could just use rubocop instead of Hound - you don't get the deep merge request integration. When Hound finds a rubocop violation it adds a contextual comment on the pull request at the line of code that is offending. In GitLab with rubocop, you simply fail the pipeline and then trawl through log output.

As I said in reply to sytse above, I think that is the main difference between cultivating a thriving eco-system of integrations vs providing an API and instructions.
That's great! It really should be more as you point out, I typically give around 30% each year. But I know that is a bit higher than most. 10%'s kind of traditional "tithing" which is why I mentioned that, but that should be the lowest probably. Of course people can also choose not to give back at all. One of the great things about being in the tech field and making an enormous salary is it gives us the power to influence the direction of society through targeted donations. One charity I've supported for years keeps trying to have a "gala" in my honor. I tell them forget it, and for goodness sake keep me anonymous. Sheesh. Trouble like a gala I don't need.
I've read that it's done more like escrow. The buyer creates a new wallet, the seller verifies the amount in the wallet, and then the buyer hands over the keys when the merchandise is transferred.
What's supposed to happen in 12 months?
Do pilots still do lots of amphetamine?
This is so true. It is especially important to amplify voices that have experienced the most cultural oppression and erasure. I hope that we will be able to resurrect Neanderthals from dna and and provide them with a natural habitat where they can grow and thrive. My dream is that one day 50% of all tech workers will be Neanderthals and they will make the same wages as Homo sapiens, or more.
I had to look up “paramotor”[1] as had never heard of it. That looks pretty fun but it’s definitely in the splurge category. Looks like it might lead to some extra medical bills too!

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramotor
New WHO guidelines on physical activity et al. for children under 5 years of age
The FDIC and other schemes to intervene in the case of bad banks allows banks to get so huge they can't be allowed to fail. Then everyone needs to pay for the idiots who put their money into bad banks.

In fact, it becomes smart to put your money in these poorly run banks since they will make more money on riskier activities but get bailed out when the same fail...

Many people are dissatisfied with this situation.
Basically, I just took some time to sit down and talk with her. Spent about a week with her on vacation. Talked about a lot of things.

Specifically though, if I had to hone it down to something I think it was when I connected the dots for her about how Facebook really works. She'd thought it was more of a "place I can put stuff where friends could reliably get to it." A sort of classified ad as a service as it were I think is how we boiled down her understanding of it.

Then she had said she kept getting flustered because people she didn't know kept popping up in her feed.

That's when I explained to her that Facebook wasn't like a passive paper. They were actively utilizing any data she made available to them to expand their network, to the point of actively putting her information in front of people she hadn't even met, and may very well not care to.

Then I explained to her the whole "Big Data" thing. Basically how more and more, things one would just do were being made in ways that they generated data trail that businesses would sell to other businesses. There was no such thing as professional discretion anymore.

She really didn't like that and honestly never realized that that sort of thing happened. She knew they were a valuable company, but didn't realize it was because they were selling access to the user base.

Talked to her a bit about the history of the company, and it's CEO's more controversial statements, and connected those with a couple of personal experiences I've had fighting to "do the right thing" in the industry with minimal luck.

I learned that week that people want somewhere to provide a "social media experience" as it were, but what I got from her is there was a much higher expectation of privacy and control of who got access than she was experiencing.

She still "checks it" occasionally to keep up with other members of the family, but I"m happy to say, she's much more satisfied with how I streamlined her email client than what she gets out of her Facebook account.

I don't know if it'll work for anyone else. She was already only tentatively dipping into the platform as it was, so it just may not have taken as much convincing to get the dots connected. Hell, it may not have been anything I said about it, but just that it disturbed/stressed me out so much that did it.

But nevertheless, I got Gram to back slowly away from Facebook. That means I've at least convinced one person. Should get easier from there right?
It’s unfortunate that the crowd sourced mobs can be unleashed the way they are being unleashed. Internet appears to be commoditizing takedowns and toxicity.

While Tesla deserves criticism, instead they are currently being bombarded with hate and FUD. It’s hard to tell who these people are and what are their motives.

FWIW - I recently bought a Model 3. And one thing you realize living with it is that it’s like living in the future. Some people don’t like the interior. That’s fine. I personally love the lack of all the buttons. FSD is another controversial topic. But it’s worth noting that people are getting real value out of Auto Pilot and NOA TODAY. It’s a very iterative delivery approach, which I find is quite practical vs the Big Bang delivery of 100% working FSD.

Lastly, you can tell that Tesla is no fraud simply by looking at Model 3 hardware and software. Yes there are some rough edges, but those are minor. You can tell it’s being executed by extremely capable people and at extreme speed.
I put "true" in quotes because there are so many competing definitions for blockchain. I agree with other commenters that there is an original definition, but people rarely talk about blockchain these days without having the Bitcoin model in mind.
>>Does a preprocessor really complicate the workflow?

I've just spent yesterday getting sass to work with my Golang project.

I used to have a nice simple makefile task, that compiled the project (in a split second) and launched it on localhost so I could find out where the problems were. My only dependency was the Go compiler. If I changed the css, the next page refresh sorted it.

Now I have a "sass watch" task, which compiles the scss to css. But that requires node.js, and npm (there are golang scss compilers, but all of them are either not being maintained, or have problems, or only support older versions of scss). I have to run this in a separate terminal so I can stop it when I need to.

I've deliberately not looked at my global node_modules directory. If I don't look, I don't have to worry about how many js libraries just got installed on my machine, and I don't have to think about who's maintaining them, and if they're now malicious. As long as sass only touches the css files, and css isn't Turing-complete (yet), then I don't need to audit any of that, and I can assume that it's not injecting malicious code into my application.

Though there are possible attacks on my site that could originate with code injection from a $malicious_left_pad js library, even via css, but it's enough of a stretch that my paranoia can live with it. I can check out the compressed css every now and again and see that it's not importing anything it shouldn't, and be reasonably sure that I haven't just compromised all my users' security.

So yeah, it's not so much that a preprocessor is a complication, it's that a preprocessor allows a malicious package to compile whatever it likes into files that I will then serve from my domain to my users, who trust that I'm not serving them malicious files. That's policed not at all by npm, or any of the package managers, who cheerfully assume that all javascript developers are honest.
I don’t think Apple leadership is concerned about being the world’s most valuable company in any given quarter or any given year.

This article alludes to a tie between design team departures and declines in sales growth.

Apple did not get big chasing quarterly profit numbers, it got big releasing game changing products and product improvements at the right time.

While this design group deserves strong regard, building AR glasses and software interface to control them is not something that a dozen people solely define, it comes from trial and error and enlightened engineers building and offering alternative ideas based on what only they could know is achievable in windows of potential release.

In fact, over the air updates, which was one of the most amazing accomplishments and features of iOS has little design at all. It’s just smart engineering that works well.

So I do not see these departures as a threat to glasses or autonomous systems because the prestige of the company combined with its quality of “taste” as jobs put it means it is not going wayward because three people leave.
So, if, say you own some underutilized hydropower in China it's a good way to exfiltrate value from that economy and turn it into some slightly less volatile asset, like Ferarris or beach real estate in Florida?
Not just execs, I hope. The engineers who wrote the code and managers who told them to do it should also face justice.
Turn 30, I presume.
Mining simply refers to rewarding nodes that work to verify transactions. A blockchain can exist without distributed verification, and without mining.
> Millions of Americans rely on Europe's tough new privacy rules

...do they? I'm an American, and I sure wish the GDPR would crawl back from whence it came. The only thing it does for me is show me gratuitous popup messages that I have to mindlessly click through.
I wonder if you could find a representation for computer programs that eliminated all of the degrees of freedom that were syntax errors, leaving only valid programs. In a sense that's what an AST is but you can still have invalid ASTs. I bet it would be a lot easier to generate interesting programs in a representation like that.