skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you're not seeing the forest behind the trees. bitcoin like cash is permissionless, private and fungible (to some extent). these properties enable illegal activities both in cash and in bitcoin. with cash it happens in face to face exchanges, with bitcoin it happens over the network.

Well, and that was the difference I was pointing out to. Bitcoin allows unchecked transactions about the network, this is not possible with cash and international cash transfer is strictly regulated - and when done electronically, carefully watched. That is the significant difference.

yeah, that's why there's definitely no illegal activities going on involving cash. /s

no need for that snotty remark, I have written myself that there are criminal transactions with cash, but they are limited by physical proximity.

uninflatable, scarce commodity/currency and transaction platform that is impossible to censor. you sure have a high bar for something having "practical value"...

it is actually deflatory, which is a bad thing for a currency. This basically bans all commercial use.

the largest practical value of bitcoin is that i have full ownership of my money, not some ephemeral record in some bank's database which can be destroyed/modified by bank's employees or devalued by monetary policy.

Not only do Bitcoin exchanges have a horrible track record about keeping your coins secure, it is grotesque that you fear the monetary policy for your "moneys value", when Bitcoin can collapse to 0 any time enough people lose interest in it for speculation.
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/murder-case-tests-alexas-devot...
My art classes barely involved any teaching at all. We were basically showed what type of art we should create and then were told to produce one good art piece per over the course of a month. Obviously it doesn't work that way. First of all we are standing on the shoulders of giants. 99% of the time this means reading books and following their instructions. Second, your first attempt at anything is going to completely fail. You need practice, practice, practice. Your second attempt will be better than your first but we never got that chance. Your third will be even better than the second and so on. The way lessons should be structured would be to draw at least 5 small pictures every lesson with the expectation that you throw them away. Then at the end of the month, you could just pick your best one and show that one to your parents instead.
That assumes that the department you're speaking of wasn't already cut. The President only seems to care about history as it relates to what he believes it should. Consider for example how many times he bashed President Obama for golfing and has since surpassed President Obama's rate. Or how he criticized Sec Clinton for a private email server then did the same thing or illegally destroyed documents. The President seems to be confused on the differences between an office with shared powers and the dictators he has made a habit of becoming friendly with.
I've been following your company on hn for awhile. I'm still iffy on whether crypto will really change the world but if it does I'd rather see your offering beat out libre. FB et al shouldn't be creating a coin but join with companies like yours who have a solid footing and create new stuff within existing ecosystems.
I see them adding something like the macOS "notarization" requirement to iOS enterprise apps.
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I have a iPad for notes (Goodnotes). I use my Notes app on iPhone when I don’t have my iPad with me. I get about an email every five minutes. Phones calls all day. I have a lot of trouble managing my daily (and longer term) detailed todo list on so many devices. I need a better and more disciplined approach to managing all of this. Does anyone have any good approaches or solutions to this. I assume it takes discipline. I just don’t have a framework or approach. Would love to hear how others manage this.
With that argument, protectionism will incentivise competition. So why don’t we close the economy a bit?
Yea, happy to explore this.

First, what do you mean by "black people?"
> So, they're imposing a tax on companies that serve French customers via the internet but aren't based in France

Actually, this would be unconstitutionnal. French companies meeting the criteria will also pay taxes.
Quick question: what does "not into US politics" mean to you? You have opinions (you state that you're a Trump opponent) and seems at least marginally informed.

Just curious, not trying to bait you into saying anything stupid. I just ask as someone who is "very political" and trying to understand what people mean when they say they're "not into politics".
I can see this in two ways, neither of which make such site look good:

1: One should be able to block their charges without cancelling a card - by what logic should they be able to take your money without permission? (This is not entirely a rhetorical question - can't you dispute credit card charges?)

2: A subscription is a sort of contract, so even if you block payments, they could claim you owe them anyway. But if it's a contract, why does one party have all the power in deciding how it may be cancelled? And what prevents them from making you jump through even more hoops, till cancelling is literally impossible?
Our old toilet had a "Designed for Windows" sticker from an old ThinkPad, and the current one has "Intel Inside".
Disclaimer: I'm very much a layperson here.

It wasn't obvious to me from the article how or if this dataset is statistically significant in some way in regards to total tor traffic?

I believe the tor project publishes anonymized data sets of tor usage, and if I recall correctly the web site handling the most traffic over tor is Facebook.
I have typed some strange stuff due to autocorrect... although "wale" doesn't seem to autocorrect because it is a real word evidently.
Cross border trade is. And digital businesses , finance, shipping , and many more will increasingly become remote. Right now EU artificially inflates local presence with regulations (by e g not having a bank union). Like it or not though, free trade zone means that taxes wont be paid uniformly. I know that tax avoidance is seen as unfair but it was enabled by the Union.
Since said 3 letter agencies often work together with the telcos, I assume it wouldn't be too hard to keep that bandwidth outside of the users bookkeeping.
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Apple created that demand. They were exclusively on AT&T at first, and aggressively negotiated that contract so they wouldn't have to have carriers' horrible bloatware. Then the exclusivity made negotiating with other carriers easier.

Google didn't even make any phones until much later. Instead they gave phone manufacturers the green light to do whatever they wanted. They ended up designing phones later because of how crappy the Android phone ecosystem had become. Google could have made Nexuses from the get-go.
I don't buy that. If Google trains models with humans then that should be transparent. Data collection sorely needs policies to cover transparency of processing and disclose all of the forms in a very straightforward manner.
Considering that Tesla's cars are significantly less likely to flip, significantly less likely to catch fire, slower to burn when they do catch fire, and the safest cars ever tested by the NHTSA ...is it fair to say that the added extraction complexity is somewhat of an acceptable trade-off?
As an ex-Googler, I'd like to say that "ordinary people" still won't understand what privacy they're giving up. Before the news, they underestimated it; not they overestimate it, but still without clear understanding of what's happening.

A group of researchers listening to a random sample of audio clip with no way to identify actual speakers is very different from someone being able to look up your name and address and pull down your conversation for leisure. (To be fair, the latter is technically not impossible - it's just that such an act will likely trigger half a dozen alarms, and the perpetrator will be fired quickly. Unless it's the government secretly asking for your information - but then, if the government is specifically looking for you, all bets are off anyway.)

It's basically the same as Google search. If you type anything into Google's search box, your search will be recorded and preserved forever so that Google's engineers can analyze usage patterns. How else would they improve their search algorithm?

Edit: I probably shouldn't have used "forever" - I don't know exactly how long your search results will be preserved. If it helps, consider it replaced by "long enough that someone can write a TechCrunch article that enrages people".
Make that $40,000 per person in the household, not $120,000 per household. Family size differs greatly. If the value isn't per-person, then you make people grow up in poverty and you drive the average family size down well below the replacement size.
Mathematics isn't science it's a tool used in science.

The most precise form of science we have is those that follow the scientific method ex. in physics where both theoretical claims and actual observations need to agree with each other plus predict the causality. And even here it's extremely hard to claim something is scientifically proven.

I am not sure what you mean with modern physics, can you be more concrete? What modern physics are just speculation and what does that have to do with the physics that isn't just speculation and theory?

Just because you believe a forthcoming climate catastrophe is real does not make it science in any meaningful way where we can talk about consensus and scientific predictions. You don't get a free pass to claim things just because you think the word as we know it might end.

Climate science is more akin to sociology or macroeconomics, i.e. a lot of speculation and interpretation and very little scientifically demonstrated foundation.
Thanks for sharing Jessie! I am definitely going to order this book :-)

EDIT:
Why did I get down voted? I am not affiliated with this book, the authors of the book, or the OP in anyway. It just so happens that I will find this book very useful, so I thanked the OP for sharing.

It is sad we live in a world where there is so much manipulation that we are suspicious of each other's sincerity. I guess I understand where the downvoter was coming from :-(
For group sizes you could look into the law of fives for groups but im not sure how it would work in this type of set up. Essentially a video chat should have a max occupancy of five. Any more and because it's hard to model the relationships of permutations between people above five it's possible for both positive and negative things to go unnoticed. It's impossible to be a troll in a group that has less than 5 members. It's also easier to get help and make friends in smaller groups than larger.
This is the biggest fallacy about taxation, if they could charge whatever the price+tax is, they already would be.
What about the bad actors operating out of federal intelligence agencies? Do they get closely monitored too or do they get a pass because of top secrets?
Fructose interferes with satiety, mediated by leptin, ghrelin, etc.

This is well-documented in the literature. High-fructose, low-fiber diets make people overeat.
Eh maybe. Technology can be a major differentiator for business success even for a non-tech player. I am not sure what a non-tech player is anymore.. Dominoes is pretty tech savvy as is Chick-fil-A for instance.
Frustrated Musk Shakes Up Autopilot Team [Unlocked for HN]
Like paying for them? How is a multibillion dollar company like google supposed to pay such a large amount of money...

Think of the children! (of the shareholders)
> To people working in machine learning, this isn't a revelation. To ordinary people, it is.

The product's tagline/marketing lead is literally: "Get answers from Google." Why would ordinary people who purchased a product to "Get answers from Google" be surprised when it sends the questions to Google to get answers from Google..?

You don't need to be an ML expert to read the product's marketing and use basic reasoning to conduce that in order to get answers from X then X will need to know the questions. That has nothing to do with ML/AI/speech recognition. It is just basic common sense.

> However, the fact that articles like this get traction shows that a substantial portion of ordinary people don't understand what privacy they're giving up when they use Google Home.

They gain traction in niche tech circles, where people pretend that the general public doesn't grasp that Google/Amazon/Apple is on the other end and claim they're defending other's privacy.

The traction isn't proof of anything, except a handful of people really dislike these conveniences (and use other's purported ignorance as justification for their whole argument).
Religion seems like a topic where there are a lot of sincere beliefs and questions, but also a lot of social signalling and pressure within a community to adhere to specific beliefs.

Suppose you are a member of a congregation who questions a specific doctrine but you don't want to commit to opposing it or signalling that you are unreliable? Suppose you are a member of the clergy questioning your faith, and not satisfied with the discussions you have had with people of higher rank within your religious order.

I think there is significant value in anonymous forums. For example the arguments during the drafting of the US Constitution probably would have been far less productive if they hadn't been preceded by anonymous and pseudo-anonymous discussions in the form of the Federalist Papers where proposals didn't carry the benefit of signalling allegiance to interest groups, or the disadvantage of signalling the opposite.

A great example today is the difference between the content on Quora compared to the content found on Hacker News. Just like a cover letter to a resume, a post on Quora may be truthful or interesting, but it is also inextricably linked to the poster's name and always suspect of being primarily interested in the effect it has on the poster's standing in the real world. Here, there are varying degrees of anonymity, and posts are more likely to be motivated by a sincere interest in exploring a topic or advocating an opinion, rather than what making such a statement says about the individual saying it.
When people say that there is a difference between Buzzfeed and Buzzfeed News, I’ll point them to this article to prove that there’s isn’t.
> It is also much easier to hide all the bandwidth associated with capturing all that extra audio since it has access to a network that the user doesn't completely control.

However, it is pretty hard to hide the large drain on the battery if your phone constantly streams audio to someone via cell network. And I'd say, since most people are on a volume limited data plan, streaming gigabytes of data will not go unnoticed - people will wonder why their budget is being eaten up so ridiculously fast.

In contrast, smart speakers usually are connected to the power grid and WiFi, which effectively means unlimited bandwidth and power for eavesdropping purposes. The only way in which this might be noticed is if someone sniffs network traffic and wonders why this speaker sends so much encrypted data. But I'd argue that the probability for this case is much lower than the probability of raised eyebrows because of the aforementioned cell data plan being drained constantly.
I never thought of this before. I guess the tl;dr is, in email replies, less words is better.
He has his own company now with another partner (https://www.amarisoft.com/) where they work on and distribute the LTE software he wrote.
It seems like he works here: https://www.amarisoft.com/about-us/
> With that in mind it is very interesting to note that these are both linked with Israeli intelligence

That sure is interesting. In fact, all three of the clickbait companies (Taboola, Outbrain, and Wazimo) mentioned in the article are founded and run by Israelis. What are the odds of that? It's quite a coincidence just how often companies involved in scams and unethical behavior just happen to be run by an ethnic group that makes up 0.2% of the world population.
I've had them kicked back on both Steam and Origin
I think "not into politics" is just a phrase that means "please don't bite my head off just because I have a different political opinion."
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>Just point at the data. The extra layer of attitude doesn't sell your argument, but just distracts from it.

I gave you the data, you did a cursory look over it, cherry-picked the data points you wanted, and then continued on with your belief that you are correct.

If you take offense to my frustrations at having heard this for the three-thousandth time, then I do apologise but this tired, old cliche is burning itself out faster than a B1 in a binary system.

>Sort the first table by rank US - 87 UK -109 France - 117 Germany - 148. When we talk about the West who else is anyone referring to? Denmark - 144. Norway - 146.

...and...

>The data shows the US is more diverse than other western countries.

From the exact same table that you referenced:
Bosnia and Herzegovina - 41, Latvia - 61, Switzerland - 63, Belgium - 65, Estonia - 77, Moldova - 78, Spain - 82

Now back to:

>When we talk about the West who else is anyone referring to?

From a non-American exceptionalism perspective, when we mention the west we are generally speaking about the countries that make up the western world, not just the United States, yeah? ...or we can even go so far as to say countries that have been directly influenced by or have direct political affiliations with countries in the Western Hemisphere. ...or if you want to go Soviet-era, the west could just be any country that has any form of democracy.

>The data shows the US is more diverse than other western countries.

It does not, as the data I originally referenced proves. Even limited to just the Northern and Western Hemispheres, Canada and Mexico are far more diverse and have cities that are just as densely populated.

>My city has a population somewhere between Ireland and Norway but it's impossible to handle social issues the way those countries do or use them as models precisely because of the population density and diversity.

This makes no sense. They all have forms of representative democracies, county governments, city governments, etc. Why do you believe it's "easier" for these areas to handle social issues and that it comes down to the sole factor of diversity and/or population density...? Do you honestly believe that differences do not exist in the political spectrum in homogeneous areas? Are you not aware that there have been periods where countries didn't have official governments for this reason (e.g.: Ireland and Sweden)?
How does your comment respond to my question? Your comment adds nothing to the discussion, it's just lazy nonsense that a child could have come up with.
Yes, but if you freeze the fruit, or do anything to remove or damage the fiber, like baking it, then it's just candy.
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Because it's a failure that says "whale" on the site that gave us the "fail whale?"
I'd say the bigger difference is that a phone recording is initiated by making a phone call. Aren't Google Home devices listening 24/7/365 so they can know when to respond?
Honestly what risk is there? Outside of some internet echo chambers no one really cares and all this will be forgotten by tomorrow if it even takes that long.
Amusing to read political comments on HN ... It is like discussion about programming laguages, just church wars ....
That's great advice. Even with quite a few years of experience at a large firm as a product manager, I was pretty clueless when I first switched to an industry analyst/consulting firm. This is spite of having been a client of said firms.

There's no way I would have known where to begin if I had just set out on my own.
First, I would like to apologize for my attitude on the original post, my choice of words was very inappropriate for this forum. Second. I would like to thank you for bringing another point of view.

I'm talking about the average joe e-commerce.
The precision requirement of Financial institution and large e-commerce are more strict than most website.
For the average e-commerce the extra cost of using a decimal arithmetic framework might not be reasonable. Of course, software engineers should use currency types when they are available.

> https://dzone.com/articles/never-use-float-and-double-for-mo...

The example used by the website is misleading. They print a value with all the significant digits. In reality, e-commerces are only concerned with two digits after the decimal point. I run the same program in C with one billion (-1) iterations and the printed value with two decimal digits was exact. It was the the as it would be if I used decimal arithmetic.

> I think in a general purpose HLL, a fixed decimal type should be the default, and you should have to opt in to IEEE-754 floating point.

Most modern languages have some support to rational, fixed point and currency arithmetic. Nowadays, even GCC's C supports Fixed Point arithmetic [1].

The hardware implementation of floating point arithmetic is concerned about efficiency hardware and support for a lot of uses cases. The ranges and accuracy needed in different application varies widely. The BCD encoding is very inefficient hardware-wise compared to binary encoding.

In summary, I do agree people with working currencies should use the proper currency type, but I also think using IEEE 754 is usually fine, specially in the front-end. Also, I don't think the trade offs of changing from binary arithmetic to decimal arithmetic are not worth it for most people and hardware system.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.9.0/gcc/Fixed-Point.htm...
She failed right at the outset. If she wanted to really email like a CEO, her response to all of those email pitches would have simply been, "pass".
Seems like an anti-anxiety solution to me. Anxiety is what keeps us from answering email right away, not being too busy. Knowing you won't put more than ten seconds into it, that it's boilerplate, makes it much easier.
> Especially, building and modifying API in NodeJS is just JSON.parse/stringify, while in Java you need a PhD in DAO.

First of all, I'm talking about OSS library as API not REST endpoint so I believe your statement is totally unrelated to my point.

Second, you don't need a PhD in DAO, it's just one simple pattern.

Third, you have a few options: have your JPA entity converted to JAXB-annotated java-class using Dozer (if it's a straight up mapping, you don't need XML). Or annotate your model with JPA and JAXB. Again, this is only if you use JPA which is heavily geared toward RDBMS. If you followed NodeJS "pattern" which implies the only arsenal is MongoDB... then it's a different story. Most projects that use MongoDB has simple(ish) data structure so you probably don't need to deal with DAO and whatnot.

Fourth, I can understand your statement coming from NodeJS since NodeJS doesn't even have a good ORM that can managed different DB providers. Specific vs Battle-hardened for years => design trade-offs. Heck, NodeJS forces you to choose a specific DB drivers...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14514048/whats-the-equiv...
Selling cigarettes works. Selling cigarettes to children works. Come to think of it, putting children to work in factories works. Dumping pollution in drinking water sources works.

Lots of things work. Of course "Finance People" are supposed to say no, because they are finance PEOPLE, not finance algorithms.