skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I applaud going back to the original source, but the paper has been updated.

See this better Bloomberg article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-04/lone-bitc...

Relevant quotes:

> One entity on the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex appears capable of sending the price of Bitcoin higher when it falls below certain thresholds, according to University of Texas Professor John Griffin and Ohio State University’s Amin Shams. Griffin and Shams, who have updated a paper they first published in 2018, say the transactions rely on Tether, a widely used digital token that is meant to hold its value at $1.

> “Our results suggest instead of thousands of investors moving the price of Bitcoin, it’s just one large one,” Griffin said in an interview. “Years from now, people will be surprised to learn investors handed over billions to people they didn’t know and who faced little oversight.”

> “This pattern is only present in periods following printing of Tether, driven by a single large account holder, and not observed by other exchanges,” they wrote in their new peer-reviewed paper, set to be published in a forthcoming Journal of Finance.

> “Simulations show that these patterns are highly unlikely to be due to chance. This one large player or entity either exhibited clairvoyant market timing or exerted an extremely large price impact on Bitcoin that is not observed in aggregate flows from other smaller traders.”
The government is already heavily involved and we already have that system: https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/understand/plans/in...
Any complex system like a crypto trading ecosystem will exhibit Scaling Law behavior ... You will see similar big whale players driving say the NY Stock exchange dynamics
That's fixed in my state. If you do not consent to a blood draw (if you already refuse breathalyzer), then you forfeit your right to a motor vehicle license. You are not convicted of a crime, but you can't drive.
Or worse, they use cursors. Cursors should never be used in SQL. Ever. That's my philosophy.
No need for two devices? I‘m waiting until I can ditch my notebook and have a tablet for everything, including coding
> a situation where the ability to express yourself in their social space requires financial investment

Thankfully adults don't judge each other by the cars they drive, the clothes they wear, etc. /s
How to Protect Your Digital Privacy
Maybe if we're going to go down this route, we should have these systems in our cars, too.
Slightly off topic, but I was just thinking about how when I was young, I was under the impression that most of my work week would be showing up on time, and doing work for roughly 40 hours a week.

In my 10+ years of office experience I never even come close to 20 hours of actual work in a week, even if I was there for 40-60 hours. Usually, half the time or more was dedicated to office politics and making people who need to constantly socialize feel good about themselves with various meetings and team-building exercises and chit-chat. During one particularly bad period of time, work often only happened the little gap between morning meetings and noon because certain people would come back from lunch pissed out of their minds and make it impossible for anyone to do anything. I never had a problem with the actual work, but the non-work I was putting most of my time and effort into was exhausting and lead to long bouts of depressions.

Now that I'm freelancing from home, with no commute and no babysitting egos, not only am I spending most of my work time on work, but the time I do spend is about 10x more productive, due to lack of office (and commute) stress.
Probably because I have no children and I am not weekend-traveler but I really don't get why some people are so excited about 4 days week. My utilization of hours during weekends is horrible. What I find attractive is idea of working less hours during normal week. Having one more hour at the end of the day sounds way better for me. Moreover from productivity perspective I believe it's better too because nobody is working 8 hours with maximum productivity.
Can you explain how this would actually work?

A graphics frame appears on the screen at a specific time. (For VR, it is a definite time, and this is critical. For normal video or games, a little bit of slop, maybe a few ms, is probably okay.)

For audio, humans are sensitive to 10 ms deviations or even less.

Any API that works decently will need to synchronize audio and video, so there needs to be a way for a program to say “this audio sample should play are the same time as this video frame is shown”. But an API should also allow programs to react as quickly as possible to user input. And Bluetooth headphones, in particular, have very, very high latency.

So designing an API that performs well without revealing the latency is hard.

I do think it would be good to cleanly separate normal web pages and games, though. For pure content, none of this matters except that video needs to maintain synchronization. But normal content does not need clicks to translate quickly to video changes.
Uber doesn't really have a say though, right? If the law says they need to provide the data, they need to provide the data.
My favorite is "Yes! We'd love to have someone with broad experience who can dive in a learn new stuff!" followed by "you've read the $TECHNOLOGY_TOOL docs, but haven't deployed anything with it? Sorry, we're taking a pass..."
I like Linux. But what about Unix?
Well this is a mistake, not from a design perpective but from a brand one.
That's funny, I'm GenX and I have very different memories. I remember high inflation ("stagflation"), high unemployment ("misery index"), multiple recessions during the first half of my career. Sure, college seemed pretty affordable compared to nowadays, but not compared to those before.

Also, a lot of the anger at Boomers is not just because of how they had it (that's mostly the doing of their Silent/Greatest predecessors) but because of how they made it. Boomers have dominated politics since those student-activist hippies got into it, largely because of sheer numbers. Thirty or forty years, depending on exactly which ones you count. GenX is finally making a dent, but mostly at the state level. At the federal level it's still heavily Boomer-dominated, regurgitating the same policies that got us into this mess. Ditto Wall Street etc.

If Boomers had enjoyed good times and then made some effort to prolong or repeat them, #okboomer wouldn't be a thing. It is a thing because so many Boomers are using their political power to keep selling everyone else's future for the sake of their own comfy retirement.
Viz., being in a relationship with a subordinate.
America's best-selling car in 2018 is the F150 series!

American's are going crazy for SUVs and pickups, but the F150 has been the best-selling vehicle for decades. Pickups have outsold passenger vehicles for a long time.
If offered 4 days a week (8 hours/4 days) it sounds like a lot of people would join a new company. I would jump in a heartbeat.

Why aren't smaller startups already using this tactic to lure away "talent"?
The solution to the exploitation of human weaknesses is for humans to toughen up and stop being so human. /s
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It might have been around the block a few(?) times but it’s good to know that OpenSolaris is still being worked on.
Are computer systems management classes and knowledge now at par with accounting and finance in MBA?

The fact that there is still the occasional CEO that brags about not even reading his email (granted its been 10 years since I heard something like that publicly) is ridiculous.

The entirety of the smooth management of modern systems is IT systems.

It would be nice if they taught morality, but I can hear the eyerolls from the students from a thousand miles away.
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I'd bet a huge amount that none of these places have adequate internal controls to regulate and monitor what their employees do with the information they manage.
Sigh, more on anonymous data privacy protection. There's nothing to protect here, IMO.
I’m all for more explicit disclosure of Facebook’s involvement in Instagram and WhatsApp, but aesthetically…I’m not sure I like it. What was wrong with the original logo and the “Facebook blue”?
>tax rates during or before the Reagan years

The tax rates people quote are not usually effective rates; they're marginal rates, and no one really paid them.

The Reagan tax cuts were revenue neutral - they cut the top marginal rates and removed loopholes. During one of them the effective rate on the rich increased slightly.

>When you look back at the last few decades you will see that republicans have decided that rich people should pay an ever decreasing share.

The middle class and poor have seen very big tax cuts. For example, here [1] are effective tax rates from the CBO for years 1979-2005.

The lower quintile went from 8% to 4.3%, effectively halving their tax rate. 2nd quintile 14.3 to 9.9%, 3rd 18.6 to 14.2, third 21.2 to 17.4, highest quintile 27.5 to 25.5.

The top 1% went from 37% to 31.2%.

So, you claim rich do not pay their share? What is their "share"? The lowest 20% pays 4.4%, the top 1% pays 31.2%.

[1] https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments...
You seem very focused on China only...why is that? GP's "musing" equally affects Russians. Or are Russians not something your ideology would allow you to defend?

Regardless, the GP does raise a valid point that if you have family living under the heel of a totalitarian dictatorship they can and will be used as leverage.

Your whinging won't change that fact, and it has nothing to do with them being Chinese (or Russian!), and everything to do with their country's government.
uMatrix prevents it from loading.

Against my better judgement, I turned off uMatrix and loaded the page. Then had a look at uMatrix.

Wow, I think we have a winner for a site with the most scripts, most 3rd party domains, and the sheer number of XHRs.

Sorry for this being off topic.
Get a burner twitter account. Or use Gab. Also remember that freedom of expression is an American right and responsibility. Does not exempt you from the possible punishment or stigma from saying something wrong.
Keep in mind that big-O notation describes how something behaves as the problem size goes up. Something O(n^2) will be slower than something that is O(n log(n)) for large enough n. For smaller n, it is quite possible that an O(n^2) algorithm can beat an O(n log(n)) one.

If you have an application that only has to sort small lists, but has to sort a lot of them, it is quite possible that an O(n^2) sort like bubble, insertion, or selection sort will be better than merge/quick sort.

Among the O(n^2) sorts, insertion almost always will be faster than bubble, so you probably wouldn't actually choose bubble sort.
Object Oriented Design Principles in Java
> So the solution has to come from Electron.

And until it does, developers should not use Electron.

There's a number of reasons why I refuse to use Electon-based apps, and this is one of them.
Can't you introduce the normal distribution as the limit of the binomial distribution? I think you can prove the central limit theorem without using terribly advanced math.
Been There, Done What? (2010)
These virtual worlds are fun to explore. I hope there will be a game or experience (ideally in VR) where we can experience the inside of an O'Neill cylinder.
Run macOS Mojave Using Vagrant
Waffle Houses are notoriously dirty, especially late at night when the drunks come in. Whether or not you're part of the party scene you want a clean table to sit at. Seeing someone wipe down a table while you're walking through the door gives you some assurance that the table hasn't been vomited on in the past few minutes.
I think the case here is more complex, since Uber uses existing city infrastructure, and therefore may be compelled to contribute to the "public good".
> But be that as it may, we're hardly fit to lecture others from our high horse.

Could you explain this? Why can’t a group claim moral superiority for not butchering people? And what grouping of people does ‘we’ refer to?
IBM has solved another fundamental problem before most are aware of them, the other CPUs are hitting a memory and interconnect wall. If you're paying attention, this has been the norm for POWER since its inception. It's too bad the OpenPOWER stuff has been underused. It's really good stuff.
The complaint seems unfair. Every piece of commercial software I've ever used has crash reporting. You can't develop software without knowing how it breaks.

Even Debian has popcon.
Owning the product = owning your ego
Notification of upcoming Kinja user blog changes
No, that's just a bug in Firefox.
I like the new logo a lot. But i very much dislike the fact that they seriously crippled the pdf and ebook functionality in the new browser. Especially since they also killed the old pdf Reader app and forced people to use the old Edge browser instead as their ebook and pdf reader.
What Is the Google Coral AI Toolkit?
Exactly. We've hit "the point of no return" in regards to climate change at least twice in the past 10 years and depending on who you ask, we're projected to hit another "point of no return" in 2024 if we don't change our ways. Look up the early climate change movements and there have been people predicting the imminent death of the earth for the last 70 years.

So, yeah, I don't blame people when they eat their plastic wrapped burger in their F150 while giving up any efforts to "save the world".
That may be; I don't know the proof. There may be combined approaches, too, with potential for lowest system cost.

Here is a patent from an Israeli company on this topic, granted just this year:
https://patents.google.com/patent/EP2911976A4/it
There is a Fields medal winner, who does math in his sleep. John von Neumann loved to work in noisy environments, did not like quiet places.
We tried a three day week in the UK, 1974, during the oil crisis.

I vaguely remember seeing articles, that I now cannot find, that claimed that the forty percent reduction in days worked resulted in much less than a forty percent reduction in production.
Istio (over) simplified – announcing Backyards 1.0
Netlify CDN Outage
> For whatever it's worth, as a data point relating to a recent discussion on whether a university CS education makes you a better programmer or not: We literally started learning about algebraic structures in the first math class on the first morning of the first year of university.

My problem with this argument is that this isn't a universal experience. I went to Waterloo, arguably one of the best CS schools in Canada, and the CS program didn't even cover algebraic structures.

I learned about them, because I spent all my electives taking extra math classes, but the vast majority of my classmates never needed to learn any math beyond basic combinatorics and some introductory complexity analysis.

I believe that these topics are incredibly important, but I'm not convinced that a college degree is a reliable way to be exposed to them. If your school covers this stuff, great! But at least in my experience, I think it's disingenuous to act like all computer science programs will.
Damn, you're right, I linked the old paper. Oops!

But it seems that the new one is "set to be published in a forthcoming Journal of Finance". So it's not published yet.

I find it impossible to have a discussion based on Bloomberg article, as good as it my be.
Filemaker had a real opportunity to become an easy to use web based database SaaS but they just couldn't make the transition to web in a meaningful way I feel. I know so many casual business users misuse spreadsheets (Excel, Sheets, or even LibreOffice) as a database, there's a need for row integrity that Airtable fills nicely.

We had a fundraiser using Airtable Pivot function to record and display lap times, completed laps, and average lap time in real time on site and on the web. Who needs IBM, when you have Airtable?
Ah I see what you are asking. The company I work for designs, builds and sells medical devices. The software team's role is more focused on improving the workflow of other departments or building tools that help with more general company wide needs (interactive campus maps, kiosks, corporate directory applications).

Example would be a tool I built for a team member that works with flex licenses (Autodesk, etc). He has a command line tool that lists how our licenses are used but it's a pretty verbose dump which isn't fun to read manually. I wrote a parser for this command and wrapped it up in a web app which provides a table of all users, charts on usage, data storing for historical metrics and so on. He is now able to better understand our usage and can more accurately guess as to when we need to purchase more licenses. He can also see what we are not using to reduce our company costs.

The things we've built don't go through any "system" and are developed simply between the requester and the software team (nothing really public so far, all internal tools). As a result, our increased speed is only a positive. However, I can understand in other companies when increased code/updates would cause tons of stress on the teams so your point is valid.
I can't wait until we can just automate this garbage generation and put them out of business.
We wouldn't want to do that. That might reduce the "character" of the neighborhood. No, it's far better to have homeless camps all over the place with poop lining the streets and people paying 80% of their paycheck for rent/housing than take a chance on reducing "character".
> sends it to earth in the form of coin

You realize this doesn't actually transfer any energy, right? Assuming you're not joking, all you've done is calculate the world's most expensive sha256.
What makes it the last?
Drum Machine in Excel
The darker side of drones and Artificial Intelligence when used for development
The internet was scalable by design.

Bitcoin is not.
Would you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? There are much better ways to honor your grandfathers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm curious what you think could have convinced you to attend a state school as opposed to where you went? Did you know the state school was a viable option at the time? Did your parents push you toward a state school, were they upfront with you about the cost difference?

I agree with your last line, but am unsure how we would best implement that as a practicality. Young people tend not to always think in the most efficient ways, and parents aren't always knowledgeable nor around to help.
I would laugh if it wasn't so crazy that someone that doesn't know how to do TDD was writing an article to say it sucks.
EDIT: after reading the blog post a second time, I even think that the author doesn't know how to write more classical unit-test.
A Tesla on Autopilot is 30% safer than it was last year
Sad. But at least because you state your rate, you can see how much them lowered. I have lost customer after them say their own prices after I estimate a lot more (that is based in decades of experience, in the same market).

When the counter-offer is TOO BAD you can say, 100% sure, the experience moving forward will be VERY BAD. I'm not in a market where programming is well paid, and this is the most certain sign the customer will not pay on time, or even at all..
You raise some good points about the API readability and discoverability. For identifiers that the user is likely to write often, ASCII and standard naming conventions are usually preferable. While auto-completion is capable of handling unicode symbols, it can easily go overboard and harm usability. Agree that typealias could help, it's something we should explore. Thanks for the suggestions!

Indeed you are correct about the finite dimension constraint, a problem we discussed with a recent reviewer [1] in further depth. As you correctly noted, since we have a fixed upper bound for type-level integers, when checking large tensors (i.e. whose width exceeds 1000 in any dimension), we fall back to dynamic shape checking, prior to numerical evaluation. Smaller tensors can be shape checked at compile time.

I too, am wary of the "type voodoo" associated with type-level programming, but would argue that the added complexity from our approach (sans type level arithmetic) comes at very little cost to the end user due to type inference. In most cases we can check arrays at compile time. In the worst case, or if the user chooses, we use runtime shape checking or unsafe execution, which is the same as ordinary array programming.

Thanks again for your feedback. Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any further questions or comments!

[1]: https://openreview.net/forum?id=SkluMSZ08H&noteId=BJeZ3FkuOr
It's also useful to know that SmartOS, the Joyent product, is based on Illumos.
As long as there is a hurdle where people can be "too stupid" to use BTC without getting scammed, BTC will never see wide adoption.
I think there are multiple differences, some more subtle than others. Transparency about the source is an obvious one, but also:

- Authenticity of the message (does the person believe what they are saying)

- Transparency about the number of people saying it (even if you aren't transparent about the source, it's better to pretend to be 1 pseudonymous person than 10)

- Information content of the message. All else being equal Tory Bruno giving out spreadsheets making the business case for Vulkan is better than Tory Bruno repeatedly saying "Vulkan is a good idea". As a less extreme PR people giving out information about timelines is better than PR people saying "watch out for our upcoming product".
Another good point. New corporate housing development have a high bias towards boring and generic, or safe, tenants.
You counter with $15k over and keeping the benefits ...
There's an easy solution when workers are required to be present... don't make all the employees work at the same time. Need more hours of productivity? Hire more people.

Also, as a waiter, your wages should not be paid by the customers. Tips are bullshit, and the rest of the world knows this. You should be paid a fair hourly wage.
One could certainly design a least authority system for bike rental. Trusted hardware to compute trip length, psuedonymous account system, untraceable payments. Identity or payment escrow in case of theft.

But really, the straightforward way is culturally. Like if there were a general expectation that a company would only use data for an immediate purpose and then delete it, employees confirmed the company culture and processes, their legal terms supported this, and there was a strong privacy law to backstop any bad actors.

But our culture is not there. We've just generally accepted that Uber will act as an attacker, exploiting their surveillance data on us as much as currently possible, storing it indefinitely to do "better" in the future, and turning it over to other third party attackers for "business purposes".

This article draws our attention because we're pretty sure if the city gets access to this data, they'll do the exact same things for their own ends - probably turning it over to the police to integrate with the ANPR data who will pass it to the feds for their own nefarious games.

It's an environment of zero trust with its corresponding high costs, which are becoming more and more apparent as wider society is hit with the implications. This is the true damage that the Surveillance Valley ethos has done, and it's going to take a hell of a long time to recover.
I also find it hard to believe that the whole cryptoboom of 2017 can be narrowed down to one dimensional Tether-Bitcoin analysis.
Based on these two examples, I wouldn’t say “everyone”. Every corrupt populist administration maybe?
A "standard" seems like an odd word to describe a process in which one company does new things, and all other companies take some time to do the same.