skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps it’s the political nature of the study but everyone seems to be missing the basic flaw in the argument for publishing this reproduction, that the flaws of the original research ( small sample size, weak correlation, etc ) were published for everyone to see. We’re talking about a science journal here and the general mindset of the comments seems to be equating it with a magazine or something. Educated readers, the real audience of this journal, would’ve read the research ‘against the grain’, if you will, and immediately saw that there was little or nothing there. This begs the question of why publish in the first place, to which an answer might be that it was unique research at the time. The methods pass muster and the data is there to be scrutinized by the reader. These guys are basically taking advantage of the obvious and attempting to, as they say themselves, ‘make their careers’.
Great movie! Known in English as "Brotherhood of the Wolf", but best watched in French with English subtitles, as the English dubbing is terrible.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237534/
Electric cars have been around since cars have existed. The only reason ICE ruled cars is because we hadn't gotten to an acceptable power storage ratio comparable to the insane amount of potential power stored in oil.
Albeit Uber is overvalued for the service they provide, and their play is one of the VC industrial complex to ramp up to high value as quickly as possible in the eyes of the financial markets (large money pool controllers) to get on stock market at unreasonable valuation, exit some early investors/founders and provide a fun lifestyle for themselves during the process - offloading risk to general public, society via the IPO etc.
This won't affect the price of GPU cards heavily right? Since most of the mining is done by specialized ASIC boxes now?
I think a comparison to tech companies is quite apt - there are people at Facebook, Palantir, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc. who are quite genuine about doing some open-aource stuff to improve the world, but for each of those companies you will find plenty of people who quite earnestly believe the company's wider mission will hurt the world. Do you accept network stack acceleration patches from Facebook if they'll accelerate mining personal data? Do you applaud improved V8 performance if it drives people from local apps onto monitored and monetized webapps? etc.

I think it makes sense to be cautious about all of these. I don't think the NSA is an abnormal risk to society, compared to the other major OSS contributors out there.
Totally agree, and that is exactly the kind of thing I'd like to call out - because land ownership is just the first step in knowing what you can and cannot do on that land. There are many other factors.

Likewise, sometimes mining claimants believe they can keep people off their claim, which isn't the legal reality - they have the rights to the materials on the land, not exclusive access. Yet another reality of the West is that you don't argue legalities with the prospector who is holding a gun on you telling you to go away.
Why not?

Redundancy isn't a bad thing
> If they're inserting backdoors in products used by US businesses, they're directly undermining their core mission.

Which is not unheard of.
I don't disagree but that should be extended to each and every member of Congress.
You know that Apple did not start working on Metal the day they announced it, right ?
Not me. I am trying to understand which developments the author of the parent comment is talking about.
You must be pretty behind the times. Most shops have stopped accepting bitcoin because of volatility and high transaction fees. Bitcoin thrives as virtual gold precisely because those two downsides make it useless as a currency.
In summary: they invent a language to describe a form of graph rewriting and apply it to modify FBP graphs to introduce new "concerns" as overlayed subgraphs.

The rewriting is limited to be performed in terms of a fixed set of patterns called "advices". There are two fundamental advices ("observer": branching an edge and "adapter": breaking an edge) and one special case ("collector": apply an observer to each top level node in a composite node).

A Java implementation was developed.
I didn’t see this addressed in the article:

How much of this is snapping up land that will be a key value once rising water levels displace coastals?

This strikes me as a much stronger play than just buying up some land.
I have OpenBSD in a VM, sadly, I have many monitors and TVs I need to interface with wirelessly to do presentations, and OpenBSD does not really support that.
> Reliance just like any other telecom operator was laying cables which they could even lease to other private players.

Jio's network infrastructure is far advanced when compared to other operations. They didn't just build it by keeping 4G in mind. It can support 5G and follow up generations without a lot of modifications. Incumbent operators had to upgrade their 2G/3G infra to support 4G. In fact, lack of 2G/3G service is a reason why Jio doesn't operate in Andaman & Nicobar islands where it's mandatory for operators to support 2G/3G service.

> But what exactly gave them enough confidence to go ahead with Jio, a deep discounted mobile network.

I would say it was access to funding and top-level infra. Not to forget, the industry was stagnant when it comes to high prices.
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Value on a few parameters ( these are relative of course) :
- Stability
- Security
- Ease of use
- Looks
I’m sure the millions of users have found a combination of these factors valuable
Perceived value? If their customers value their products at $X and value their competitors less, they should pay more for Apple than their competitors. Some of this is subjective (branding, UX, etc), other parts have to do with the value add of combining multiple Apple products into one ecosystem (macOS + iOS is more valuable if you use the shared ecosystem).

Is it worth spending $1-3k on a Mac if you just want to browse the web? Probably not unless you're really into their branding. Is it worth it if you have an iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch and use many of Apple's shared services? Probably, and you get even more value out if it if you use popular software that targets macOS like Adobe products. If you're buying the ecosystem, the price is a lot more justifiable.

Personally, I don't own any Apple devices and I primarily use Linux, so my only one case for macOS is the iOS simulator and XCode so I can build and do basic tests for apps on that platform. And honestly, since that's the only extra value I'd get from them, their hardware seems a bit overpriced (I'm already paying for the developer license and sharing profits, hardware costs and lack of selection are salt in the wound compared to Android).
> This stems mostly, I think, from a confusion about the difference between social democracy and socialism.

Sure. And my argument/thesis is that this confusion is a deliberate tactic by Right-leaning politicians. McConnell called granting statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico, “full bore socialism” in a Fox News interview just this week:

* https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mitch-mcconnell-dem-d-c-sta...

WTF?
I don't see this as much different than what's going on in the US where most of the nuclear plants are running past their design life and have cracks in the concrete that they hand wave and increase the allowable tolerance for. Nuclear plants are very expensive to build. This incentivizes bending the rules and taking chances to continue running them past the point where they should be shut down.
Probably Lightning Network.
Viral Lightning
That's because actual sex workers were unaware of what Backpage was doing, and what the consequences were. By knowingly running an online market for child sex trafficking harmed the entire enterprise of safe sex work.
This ponzi has better rules than the ponzi your government created for you by default. It is as simple as that.
How? It didn't work until it became more free

Chinese authoritarianism has relatively little effect on its economic output, it's not run like the Soviet union
Ok, I'm not a huge fan of the crypto craze, but ignoring providing a solution to the problem of trust in decentralized networks and implementing a working payment network on top of that is just a blatant ignorance.

The solution is massively unelegant and unlikely to be worth so much long-term as markets are predicting now, but it definitely does provide some tangible value and it's pretty stupid to imply otherwise.
Much and most are not synonymous in this context
Why would you think such a blatantly false thing? Some recent developments include:

- Schnorr Signatures https://github.com/sipa/bips/blob/bip-schnorr/bip-schnorr.me...

- Taproot https://github.com/sipa/bips/blob/bip-schnorr/bip-taproot.me...

- Erlay (relay protocol that reduces bandwidth up to 75%) https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10518

- Dandelion (privacy enhancing transaction relay protocol) https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13947

- Miniscript https://prezi.com/view/KH7AXjnse7glXNoqCxPH/

and many more
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There is a trend in inboxing-rates: if there is no interaction with a sender, start moving the messages to spam and start penalizing the sending IP address. This means senders, in order to protect their IP reputation, do well to remove recipients who don't engage with email sends. The two most typical ways to do that are a tracking pixel or tracking if a link is clicked.

It seems like a natural progression. What is unfortunate is that the inboxes are really part of the problem because measuring engagement and lowering spam is a good thing, but just because I did not open the mail (load tracking pixel) or click a link, does not mean I did not engage. Reading a subject line is good enough for a lot of email I get. Many users have images blocked, and tracking pixels are rendered useless. I still have email that Gmail puts in spam that I really want, but I only use the subject. It is a non-trivial problem because there is an arms race between inboxes wanting to prevent spam and spammers wanting in, and in the middle is businesses who have legitimate email to send or normal people sending email.
Costs over safety. If a regulation isn't enforced, it will likely be forgone.
> On a desktop OS, if an attacker is in a position to read memory from other processes, it's pretty much game over already.

Not really. Password managers have access information to your other accounts in the cloud. Your desktop may not have your most valuable data.
I'm not saying it's the reason for the current situation, but I can see Libra in the near future giving some credibility to the concept of crypto in general. What could get something out of the fringe faster than Facebook's endorsement?
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This is perhaps true, but the Chinese seem to have no concept of intellectual property: There is good reason to consider every product sent to made in China's design to be lost
It's certainly annoying. If a customer needs to have a few different platforms installed, they won't really learn to use any of them. If they have one or two, they'll likely get more value out of them.

If everything was available on every packaging platform, then I'd say the user choice is valuable. However, if most apps only support one or two platforms, it becomes fragmented and you lose most of the benefits of user choice. I like having lots of Linux distributions because most apps work on most distributions. I don't like the current situation with Snap/Flatpack/etc because that's not the case.
The fact that they’re not committing their changes under a pseudonym or front company suggests that they’re okay with the world knowing about what they’re up to. Same with their reverse-engineering toolkit.

What Snowden publicized was, for the most part, completely hidden from the view of society. The NSA wasn’t coming to tech conferences announcing their new surveillance tools.

Don’t think that the new parts of Coreboot won’t attract scrutiny from security-conscious companies and individuals.
If the polygraphs are anywhere close to as bad as some CIA/NSA/etc. personnel describe online (e.g. [1]), no amount of money or interesting work can get me to have myself violated like that.

[1] https://antipolygraph.org/statements/statement-038.shtml
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GTFO NSA mole.
Looking this up it seems like Engineering and Qualification samples are loaned by Intel, so the people selling them don't actually have the legal right to do that. They also might have other issues and limitations because they're not the final product, and you don't have any warranty on them.

That's a lot of caveats to hide behind two letters.
Giving the quote its most charitable reading, it sounds like they mean it's possible technologically to create a machine that:

* identifies a potential target
* chooses to kill them
* kills them

And so the problem isn't whether those are possible but entirely on the ethical component of choosing who to kill (or building such a system at all in the first place.)

And obviously a portion of that ethics is the adversarial component you mentioned which makes the closed loop choosing more difficult.
Building a decentralized supercomputer onchain
Let‘s instad have a thought experiment: We want to create a decentralized supercomputer, both on Ethereum and on BSV. Let‘s say we have a 60mb program to calculate 1gb of climate data.
Ethereum
On Ethereum it is impossible to put 1gb of climate data onchain. This is the capacity of about one week. It might be possible to push 60mb of program data onchain, but this requires a heavy refacturing of the scripts, will cost a lot of Gas and might cause several security risks.
If you try to do the operations onchain, you will fastly reach the limits. Executing the supercomputer operations will cost heavy amounts of Gas, while you only get a tiny power capacity, as the operation is done by every single node. It will not work very well.
Instead of creating the supercomputer onchain, you can create a marketplace for supercomputing onchain. This is approximately what Golem does. You create a smart contract, which tries to wrap up a complex logic of business scenarios to enable people to trustlessly trade supercomputer power on a decentralized marketplace. While such a contract will still cost a lot of Gas – it is relatively complicated for Ethereum – you still need a centralized third party to share data and tasks and to allow the involved actors to access the system.
Bitcoin SV
Now, how can it be done on BSV? First, you can put the files to process onchain – 1gb is not that much of data for BSV, Ryan X. Charles already uploaded 1.4gb of pictures. So you can do with the 60mb calculating instructions. Not as a smart contract for other nodes, but just as a string. All data you use is stringed: Nodes do not need to execute it, but they can.
Then you create an onchain website, giving users access to some kind of marketplace. This allows to access and produce onchain data: Identities or pseudonym of bidders, askers and maybe moderators; every step of a trade cycle – offers, acceptance, delivery, payment, review. It is not a shared computer, but a shared filesystem.
That‘s it, basically. You can share vast amounts of data and scripts, create the data items needed to run a supercomputing marketplace and process deliveries and payments without the need of a centralized third party website. Multisig transactions protected by a notary or moderator, can be used to secure the payments.
Sure, the supercomputing is something for the future. BSV just started its metanet enterprise. It‘s not ready. For example, processing multisigs on onchain sites is currently hardly doable in a userfriendly way.
But in general – it is possible. With this method you can basically build everything. While Ethereum struggles with making expensive zero knowledge proofs (zkSnark) compatible to onchain computing, people in BSV are already working on toolsets like onchain SSH.
A new paradigm
"I went on vanity-eth.tk and generated a public and a private key"

That people are actually still willing to do this in 2019 with BTC above 10K and ETH above 300 always surprises me, even if it's for a toy example like this article (as it might incite other less tech-savy people to believe it's ok to do something like that).
Unfortunately, there’s no match for Photoshop for serious image editing.
I don't believe I'm familiar with JIT in this context? Just in time development?
I’m a sysadmin, I drive an hour to a larger town everyday.
When I was in college I used to have positive sentiments towards college recruiting events too. It made me feel very special to think that these organizations wanted to engage in a dialoge of sorts and be in business with me and my fellow students. Now (15 years later), I realize that these people are basically actors in a live-action TV advertising spot and no more credible than one either.

The core is usually HR-people who do these kinds of events as a fulltime gig. They are usually very much out of touch with the rest of their organization because they do indeed spend all their time talking to students, and almost no time engaged in whatever business their organization is actually engaged in. To spice things up, they throw in one or two "real" employees. The reason they come is because there will be an HR policy whereby an employee is enouraged to spend one day per year on an activity like that to tick a box for their next promotion, so they grudgingly go there, but still secretly think of it as a waste of time. They still play their role though in the live-action TV advertising spot and put on a friendly face.

My own experience is that I was quite entrepreneurially-minded when I was in college. I wanted to be in business with a lot of organizations, just not as an employee. I used to go to all these events, hoping that they can put me in touch with people who do certain things, know certain things, get to decide certain things, etc. etc. I would always hit a brick wall. Because the people at the recruiting fair are there solely to get you to interview for the internship program or whatever. If you approach them with any other kind of request, the HR-people are neither incentivized to, nor, in most cases, able to accommodate you. For the real employees (the guy doing his one-day-a-year-stint), you as a college student, are not worth actually investing time into, so they won't do anything for you either.

In other words: Their presence at the recruitment event is not the presence of a human being that wants to engage with you on a human level, nor the presence of an organization that wants to be in business with you, but rather the presence of a robot who can accept your application for the internship program and who is not programmed for any other kind of interaction with you.

You don't need to take my word for it, either. You can easily put it to the test.

Next time you go to one of these events, bring a pencil and say: "I will happily interview for your internship program, but as a sign that you are SERIOUS about wanting to engage in a business relationship with me, I would like you to use company money to buy this pencil from me for 50 cents".

Witnessing what happens next will hopefully rid you of feeling special. -- I can assure you, you won't sell a single pencil. If you do: That's the company you should work for.
Aside from the obvious fact that the set everyday numbers (both rationals and reals) are fields, most crypto heavily relies on finite fields.

[edit] and come to think of it, I might be mistaken I don't think the notion of vector space and therefore the whole of linear algebra would work without a field for the underlying coordinates.
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If it's baked into an iMac / Mac Pro, what proportion of the potential market are actually going to delve that deeply into the components? I'd wager probably single digit %.
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I haven't heard it either, but apparently it's another name for the Toyota system/'lean manufacturing':
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_manufacturing
> They seem to be random and not based on any relevant real-world event

There are some events that trigger movement, but in macro it just looks like a very regular pattern of bubbles interspersed with long periods of not much movement. Even now I think there are enough ideological and greedy fools that I think the bubble pattern will remain strong that even a dispassionate amateur can reliably make a profit.

It started to show signs of a strong upward trend a month ago. Now that mainstream news is covering it I'm confident it will start to grow faster into a very obvious bubble.
Nice to see e-flux, one of the oldest netart sites on the internet, still publishing. For a deeper dive into fascinating origins of materialism in Ancient Indian philosophy, the following provides a decent intro.

"However, in importing these labels from Western philosophy to the classical Indian philosophical systems, one needs to exercise caution because the concepts of nature, science, scientific method, etc. do not smoothly converge in the two theoretical traditions."

Naturalism in Classical Indian Philosophy

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/naturalism-india/
Ahhh yes, because rose are so easy to come by and to setup
Probably correct but making mobile CPUs is still a level below making the monsters our desktops are blessed with(Think of all the different SIMD etc. extensions the average Intel CPU) has these days
No offense, I am genuinely curious, why would anyone use any closed source software for anything related to security after the Snowden revelations?
This right here is I think the best argument.

Cryptocurrencies are going to be an escape to tumbling economies in the next 2 years. It does not matter if gold or other instrument is better, crypto is super accessible now, and is what people will use.

Having lived in different countries in Europe and the Americas, Ive experienced first hand the difficulty in "buying gold". Not only that, even when buying any instrument, usually it means trusting in some 3rd party to manage it. While using a crypto wallet means only you have the private key.
One thing I liked about liberally licensed libraries was that I could use and contribute to them both at my day job and my side hustle. If I wanted a particular library at my regular job and my side hustle, the lowest effort way to do that was to release something as MIT/BSD/Apache (and maybe MPL) on my own time, then use and improve it at my regular job, which meant I could avoid doing the same work twice (and maybe get coworkers to contribute).

That just isn't feasible most of the time for Free Software. If you want to profit from Free Software, you have to design both the software and your business model around the license. With liberally licensed software, you just use it.

And yes, it certainly benefits other companies, but is that really the bad thing? I'll work on something if it benefits me, and if it benefits someone else too, that's fantastic. I don't care if it nets me hundreds while netting someone else millions, I'm still getting hundreds.

I used to build stuff to be "part of the community", but that's less important to be now than building stuff because it benefits me. There are a million projects I could involve myself in, so now I'm just a bit more selective on what I contribute to.
"Apple: Does more, costs less"
we don't really need to have the same discussion ad nauseam . People invest in bitcoin so it must be an investment
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Even more bizarre, the gallery page for that picture has a slug of "on-the-list-before-stonewall-film-ginsberg-poetry-festival-at-volunteer-park-seattle-poetry-slam": http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2019/06/on-the-list-before... (and the image is titled "Leak 2"). There are other interesting images in that gallery that aren't on the article (or perhaps are visible only if you have javascript enabled).