skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the problem lies in the fact you would have to include in your business decision to block roaming.

Does roaming involve my cell phone having the same kind of unrestricted SS7 access on the telco's network that enables spoofed robocalls? If so, what the hell are SIM cards for?

> What does trusted mean? Does it mean that if someone on that network is abusing SS7, that they become untrusted?

Trusted here would mean the network enforces ingress filtering on caller ID data; that calls being placed by end users on that network have accurate caller ID attached by the carrier, and calls coming in from another network either have trusted caller ID data or blank caller ID data.

I don't know enough about how SS7 works to know how what degree of access to SS7 is used by various methods of placing calls, but it seems pretty likely that ordinary landline and cellular phones are not viable ingress vectors for spoofed robocalls, and filtering is only needed with more advanced services such as connecting your PBX to the carrier's network.
From my POV the ideological reason behind supporting bitcoin is somewhat weakened given that you'll just have the caste of early adopters completely dominate the market. Essentially trading one elite with another with possibly even greater inequality this time
OK, so you apparently believe that big companies perform magic.

Meanwhile back in reality, a big company may have tens of thousands of affiliates or more. The affiliates all maintain that they are on the up and up, but any of them could be scammers. The company gets leads and doesn't know how they were generated.

To see how easy it is, you can create a blog, register yourself as an affiliate for Amazon, and put a link on your blog. Boom. Now have your friend click on your link, and go buy something. Guess what? Amazon will pay you money!

Now suppose that you do that and I do that. You put up your blog, I put up a blog as well. But I also put out a browser extension that rewrites all amazon links to come to my site, record that, and then redirect. How is Amazon supposed to find out that your traffic is real and mine is from a scam? Our sites look the same. We're both sending real customers who will pay real money.

In this scenario if Amazon could catch me, they would. I'd be straight up cheating them, making them pay for traffic that I didn't generate.
> And, either way, the cost of implementing extreme scalability can inflict its own harm. Highly scalable systems usually come with more operational complexity, and steeper learning curves

I think you're overestimating the cost factor of future-proofing an architecture for extreme scale (and 26K/sec/server isn't actually that 'extreme'). And instead of downvoting people who've walked that walk, perhaps people may realise this by engaging instead.

Also, I didn't read any 'arrogant dismissiveness' in the post. Each to their own! Happy New Year!
The transaction fees are extremely relevant to miners, it is currently the icing on the cake, but will become more relevant over time.
Wow, that makes a great disaster recovery warning story
If you think this, you don't understand Bitcoin.
Just pointing out; there exist also those who consider the possibility of a collapse of cash/dollar more likely than your estimate.
If the view is easy to persuasively debunk, why not? Will use a smidgeon of an expert's time and help a lot of people. If the view is not easy to debunk, maybe it is worth an extended discussion? Seems win win either way.
There is a documentary about the burglars [0] who revealed COINTELPRO, called 1971 [1]. It's really an awful name for SEO! It was released in 2014 so searches for "1971 2014" might return useful results. Funnily enough, there is also a completely unrelated film called '71. Anyway, 1971 is more about the reveal of the program, so details about the program itself are secondary.

I would love to see a documentary/drama series about UK agent provocateur, Bob Lambert [2].

> To gain credibility as an activist, he formed friendships with other movement members; he also embarked in long-term relationships with women as a means of establishing a cover story. He fathered a child with one of the activists he was spying on.

> In 2013, it was reported that while undercover with London Greenpeace, Lambert had co-authored the 'McLibel leaflet', which resulted in a defamation lawsuit from McDonald's Corporation that took ten years to resolve.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Commission_to_Inve...

[1] https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/1971/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lambert_(undercover_police...
Actually, I wasn't meaning for it as a suggestion for seniors. I was just saying that it's not that far of a wild notion to wait to get a new number. Growing up, my family played the get a new unlisted number game, but it did not work until going without for an extended time. That was for a landline, so I skiped that story for one with a more modern version. There is something to the waiting for a period of time before just getting a new number.

The VoIP story was more of a seed planting for anyone else that might be reading and interested. Senior or milenial, doesn't really matter to me who it might be that might want to to give it a shot. Plus, seniors tend to have family members that could help them set something like this up. Don't write those seniors off so lightly
Can we get the title updated to MF DOOM has died?

> Just remember ALL CAPS when you spell the man name

https://youtu.be/noPlIn8TJSQ
I thought the Euro was taking over thanks to the 500EU note?
> All of mathematics can in principle be derived from ZFC.

Even this isn't true; many useful (as in often-used) statements are independent of ZFC, and not even in the semantically funny way a Gödel sentence is.

Or maybe ZFC is inconsistent, in which case all of mathematics surely can be derived from it - but so can all mathematical lies. Gödel also proves we can't know if it is or isn't (at least by the standards mathematical formalists seek).

> not part of mathematics in any reasonable sense.

This is an aesthetic claim about what theorems get to count as "real mathematics", and one both Gödel (who believed in the literal existence of mathematical objects and therefore actual truth of his sentences) and contemporary hardcore formalists (whose goal was to find some extension of PA both complete and consistent) would disagree with.

Gödel quite literally proved mathematics is "beyond" (as in its truths cannot be wholly captured by) and "above" (as in mathematical rules seem to be able to characterize the whole of) mathematical logic. Whether that makes it "magical" or not is something we will probably debate for another century.
Dollar is still the king of money laundering. Regulatory support, shoddy bank regulations makes it a smooth experience of money launderers and mafia with USD.
Calculator

The horrible new version that is ridiculously huge, phones home, and somehow is slow enough to need a loading screen?

I really wish they would've just opened the good one, but you can already find that one in the leaked 2k source...
Bitcoin total market cap is ~$500 billion, so it's still a pretty small niche, and I think there's quite a ways to go before it becomes "too big to fail".

For comparison, the market cap of gold is ~$10 trillion. The majority of the US economy is not hooked into Bitcoin, and very few institutional investors have any significant exposure to Bitcoin. Contrast that with the '08 financial crisis that was based in real estate -- the US real estate market at the peak of the crisis was ~$23 trillion [1], with nearly every major financial institution heavily exposed.

[1]: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/z1/balanc...
It's volatile, but the overwhelming trend has been upwards. Historically it's a great investment if you can weather volatility
oh yes it does, it has crashed more than 2000% vs Bitcoin in a decade.
Do you live in the US? If so, how do you deal with the tax implications of buying lots of things with crypto? It's my understanding that each of those is considered a taxable event that you have to report on your tax return.
I have to say the seriousness of coronavirus only hit me when it got a Jira ticket: COVID-19
You must be aware of this but here's who I consider ( to my knowledge ) to be at the forefront of those questions and the best documented / systematic and comprehensive resource ;

https://nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html

As a side note, and from someone with negative karma, you may wish to peruse my recent comments about Covid, some seem to think they are unthinkable ideas while I persist in saying they are worth considering, although it is about an ongoing black swan and therefore probably not within the scope of your survey, they fit your description in that way.
Buying drugs with BTC is very widespread and probably what fuelled the initial adoption. How is that anything but a currency?
Armchair economists have been predicting inflation since 2008.
Isn't the squid-like graph in the middle of the article caused simply by using tiny subsets over tiny populations? Would you really bother with subsetting if each participant had fewer than, say, 100 connections? Put a different way, is the reduction in connections from 280k to 25k at the end of the article a thing worth achieving? Any single Linux process can deal with 280k connections, so having that be the aggregate number of connections in a distributed service architecture strikes me as a non-problem.
I have no proof of residency once my driver's license expired.

Every state I've lived in (13 so far) has an ID card that looks and acts exactly like a driver's license, with the only legal difference being that it is not valid for driving.

Unless you're not in America, in which case someone else can chime in.
If you think Bitcoin is bad, don't use it. Bitcoin is free market protocol. Often in free market it comes down to preferences, and this kind of opinion pieces are just a statement that I don't like what other people don't like, and other people shouldn't like what they like.
That's the point. It's a bogeyman. We'd likely have a war on cancel culture but nobody has figured out how to make a buck on that yet.
That's good to hear. What about exchange controls? How do you see governments adjusting inflation with widespread international Bitcoin usage?
As a PM, all I really want out of the tools that I use is to be inspired by them. If I have to use it daily, it better have ideas for me to borrow. Jira does not inspire. It's what software looks like when it has no opinion. I hate it.
This is an extremely tiring response.

I pay for most things in Bitcoin.

I just built a new computer from parts I ordered off of Newegg, paid 100% with Bitcoin. I pay my rent in Bitcoin. I get paid in Bitcoin.
Bitcoin Cash is about trying to make transactions faster and cheaper by increasing the block size (and rate?). Upside: Might be able to use it directly to buy coffee with a reasonable UX. Downside: would likely lead to a small number of huge machines managing the world's blockchain. The Bitcoin Core group really wants people in poor nations to be able to run their own Bitcoin nodes on their cell phones eventually. They value decentralization above UX.
To all the software engineers who have dismissed Bitcoin for over a decade: Have Fun Staying Poor.
Overall inflation is at roughly the same nearly flat level it's been for a decade. Food has gone up and energy has gone down, and both of those are easily explained by coronavirus-related supply and demand shifts.
Then you probably won't be pleased to hear that crypto derivatives are far more popular than actual hard crypto :)

Most people are unaware, the the derivative volume of btc is yuuuge compared to the spot volume.
Well, obviously the designer of bitcoin or any so called cryptos did not take a serious thought why centralized financial authorities are there. They believed books kept by those financial authorities are the real problems and thus they made the books public and introduced the mining process. The real problems have never been about records, they are really about the integrity of the transactions, which in turn pointing to the trustworthiness of the counterpart. By making books public can never ever resolve those trustworthiness issue and actually introduced more problems such as everyone is storing heaps of info which does not concern them at all, 51% attack etc. To establish trust between parties in the transactions, as you mentioned, market-makers, exchanges etc came into play, which defeats the purpose: to decentralize by introducing other centralized authorities which are actually less trustworthy than current ones. In other words, catch-22.
> Like how it's illegal to carry too much cash

Which country is that? It's not illegal anywhere I know of.
BTC is so pointless to me. The problem is it keeps going up. It looks like its more likely to hit $100,000 before $0, so you can still make a lot of money by buying now. Which is why I bought some.
SEO is a poor substitute for curation.
Simple Firefox dies Mozilla does too. I mean this doesn't require any explanation.

The point of trying out new products like VPN, relays SHOULD be to find alternative funding for Firefox's development. Also what makes you think it is only Google who can fund Firefox? This is a pretty shallow (and lazy) reasoning, pardon my language.

I'm suggesting we disband Mozilla as it is the core problem with Firefox. Clean browser from scratch or not, we need a chromium alternative.

Direct question that cannot be answered at one go. Though I sure do know I don't want Google directly involved with the funds to the browser engine alternative. This poses the biggest threat to internet freedom and privacy in general.
My own experience is that startup employers really do have unrealistic/over-optimistic expectations of what's actually required to achieve a certain result. Anything worth doing in the startup world hasn't been done before, so it's usually not possible to invent it on a schedule.

People who will throw something together are heroes, but very often the result is complete crap that has enormous costs if it gets adopted as a standard. I'm being only slightly facetious asking, how much has humanity been set back due to the fact that less than two weeks was spent inventing Javascript? Maybe they should have spent an extra week or two on it and saved millions of person-years down the road [ h/t the recent repost of https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death... ]

At the same time, my own psychological makeup made me vulnerable to trying to meet those unrealistic expectations, and that's on me. It took decades to really figure out what's going on, and ultimately it's a matter of acceptance rather than actionable change, although change is possible. With so much of our capabilities and challenges being unconscious, I continue to marvel at the miracle that anything gets done at all.
It has happened before. Ethereum Classic is the "original" version of Ethereum, but it's a nondescript altcoin, while the one that reversed transactions is the number #2 in the world.

I don't see why that can't happen to Bitcoin if the network participants (ideally normal users but practically the miners) and major stakeholders can benefit from it.
Reality is, years don't mark anything. People have been saying "x year is the worst" increasingly for the last 4 years, and 2020 is the only recent one that actually fits. Tomorrow isn't going to shift anything, it's just how we keep track of time. Expecting a year to contain itself is what leads to this yearly disappointment everyone seems to experience. What I find frustrating, is that all people can say about most deaths now a day is "this year is the worst". No sentiments, nothing about the person who's passed. Just self absorbed focus on how this year sucks (they all suck apparently if I were to listen to people yearly). I wish we'd celebrate the person by default instead.

MF DOOM was one of the greats. One of the only reasons I could get into hip hop. Really heartbreaking.
Isnt that just a bunch of conspiracy theories? Hanlons razor! Its just a few bad actors not systemic to the org. At least it stopped after the Church committee, because its impossible to keep a secret conspiracy secret. Its just a bunch of coincidences that aligned by chance. Did everyone here forget their tinfoil hat? We should censor such conspiracy craziness for the greater good, because the platforms are private and have every right to do so, also people who believe in conspiracy theories are mentally ill. Talk like this is just illogical people trying to put meaning to events that happen where there is none. Its not like there is cordination among rich and powerful groups of people to conspire against the people, thats just a cliched trope.
あけましておめでとうございます!
HAPPY NEW YEAR ... YOU'VE ALL DONE VERY WELL !!!
la multi ani!
Watergate (probably) was COINTELPRO.
One of the most common critiques of modern portfolio theory is that it defines risk by volatility rather than downside risk. While a stock will never have price-to-book multiple less than 1 (unless fraud has occurred) a cryptocurrency has no such limit on how far it can fall.
Their scarcity is not "like". The owner of beanie babies has/had full power to produce any amount of beanies, inflating their supply. The owner could start up the factory again and flood the earth with beanies.

Bitcoin scarcity is protected by mathematics and the nature of the universe. And the public ledger.

I guess anyone can dream up a new mathematical system and ledger and unlimited dreams can be dreamt making more supply of electronic currency. But the specific instance of a dream "bitcoin" and it's public ledger cannot be inflated.
What's kind of amazing is that all of this has been obvious for years, and yet we're still talking about the same flaws and promises of bitcoin.
I think you might be one of a small handful of people that I've heard from that continue to use BTC as a currency for goods over the past few years. It's good to know that this still happens!

Out of curiosity, you mention depreciating value for fiat being a liability, which is absolutely true. That being said, doesn't appreciation also create a different sort of liability?

For example, let's say I buy a 1TB SSD for $60 worth of BTC on Monday, and then that same amount of BTC is worth $75 on Friday. In theory, would it be reasonable for me to feel like I've overpaid?

Of course in this scenario, I pay for rent, food, taxes etc. using fiat, so I'm exposed to the difference in conversion rates. I suppose if I lived somewhere where I could transact wholly in BTC for everything and its value wasn't in any way tied to a fiat currency and the value of goods and services were negotiated in BTC in a way that's entirely decoupled from market value on exchanges, this wouldn't be an issue for me. Is this possible?
Bonne année HN !
Wishing even more curiosity to you all this year!
Something for the Weekend Register
Not physical safes, but there's a fascinating story about Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services firm that lost over 600 employees in the attack, calling in Microsoft security experts to break into hundreds of employee accounts they no longer had access to. Client money was tied up in these accounts and they needed to regain access before the stock market opened up again.

To help in this task, they had to call the family members of still-missing employees and ask for personal information that might be included in passwords:

"What is your wedding anniversary? Tell me again where he
went for undergrad? You guys have a dog, don’t you? What’s
her name? You have two children. Can you give me their birth
dates?”

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/magazine/the-secret-life-...
I hope you are right and only a few people will get hurt.

That people will seriously get hurt, that’s not a question.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts in this post and elsewhere in this thread, food for thought. You have introduced me to a new concept which in hindsight is obvious but I am embarrassed to admit I had not considered. I'll add resilience.org to my reading list, do you have a blog or other sources you suggest following on the topic of environmental justice?
We don't code in a vacuum.

Reading third party code is part of the job so language features reach us regardless.
The Kindle stores WiFi passwords in your Amazon Account
I visited Aruba a decade ago. The Hotel TV picked up a channel fro Venezuela. It was amazing. It was like the Hugo Chavez action channel. Hugo playing baseball. Hugo interacting with a farmer, Hugo riding in the back of a truck... and so on. That day I learned all I need to know about TV. And those who control it.

There's also this great song by John Mayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBIxScJ5rlY
It makes me wonder how many people have gotten busted for either buying or selling drugs with cryptocurrencies, thinking it was automatically safe and private.
Wouldn’t be surprised if they did. Sounds like a smart idea!
Happy New Year to all you fellow HNers.
I’ve been a long time reader and have always enjoy the comments and discussions here.
I wish you all have a year full of joy and happiness.
> He's an Ally in the same Brutus was to Caesar.

An interesting analogy...Brutus who was close and loyal to Caesar until Caesar’s extrajudicial and dictatorial excesses pushed him to put republic before family and kill his mentor? :)
Well, low reactivity is why it stays shiny, right? People like the shiny squishy heavy rocks
Its Jira combined with outsourced or contract developers that only care about getting that feature added. Our app is a mess, loaded with technical debt and hugely difficult to support and use. 90% of devs dont care, they do add their one piece of new functionality and move on to the next one or next project.
I guess it tells you that loops and basic containers work?
:(

MF DOOM...
You are not missing anything, QE means the value of the currency has dropped, there is no escaping this simple fact. Whether it can be hidden for a while and for how long, remains to be seen.
>> Publishing a study that concludes that racial background correlates with SAT score isn't controversial

That's how science should operate. The comment I was responding to seemed to indicate such statements were problematic, even without attributing the cause to innate biology.
Ethereum is probably more exciting from a tech perspective currently.
It's either ublock origin, or the default tracking protection of Firefox but I have never witnessed the login-wall everybody complains about.
Inflation doesn't need to be measured in many ways, you can view it directly on the m2 money supply chart: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2

Everything else is just a derivative of this. You're measuring the side effects of inflation. If you want the deeper cause, it's here.
I agree with your assessment, having experienced a gradual shift from junior to senior myself.

As for why the downvotes, hypothesis 1: People might misconstrue your position as "senior ICs are supposed to design the system entirely on their own". I understand you as "management provides the direction and some design constraints, seniors fill in the details, juniors just implement specifications from the seniors", which matches my experience.

Hypothesis 2: Maybe it's a culture thing? I'm guessing from your user name that you're from Europe, and I'm from Germany. Maybe the downvoters are literally coming from a different place? (Don't know how it would be different over there though.)
No, RSA encryption was not broken by the Pythagorean Theorem
No, it's not that they don't have their own machinery per se. It's that their life-ness depends on the context they are found in.

So on Earth, shower-caddys are non-living because there is not a machine which replicates them.

But in some other galaxy there could be a planet where organisms exist in which shower caddys can hijack their reproduction to produce more shower caddys.