skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why can't we have a system that provides both removal and rehabilitation?

If I were designing a prison system, it would be a mini-society. Only a minimal set of rules would be specified and enforced by those outside the prison. The rest would be voted on and enforced by the prisoners themselves.
I'm guess your resume was still otherwise impressive
It does not work as you'd imagine. It doesn't work for anyone - particularly switching from ios to macos as the currently playing device. It works the other way around fine, and even between iOS and iPadOS. But not iOS to macOS. Other headsets that simply support connecting to multiple devices at a time end up providing a better experience since you can switch between devices easier than with Airpods switching. I'm unsure about how the Airpods Max performs but I'm willing to bet it's the same way.
I have frontier fiber in FL and it is rock solid, one of the better ISPs I have had. This is ex Verizon territory though.
In other words, the PoW scores on ETH and ETC after the fork ultimately were predictive of how much one token was valued versus another. You are right that there was uncertainty at first -- and it was reflected in how much PoW each chain got! -- but for someone who's just now coming into crypto with no a priori knowledge of the event, the higher PoW score on ETH is indicative of higher market demand. Which is exactly my point.
The fundamental problem with BTC's stability is why spend it today if tomorrow it will be worth +20% more?
That was the ideal, and in my experience, the norm at the time.

The Hacker Manifesto said it nicely:

"This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the
beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying
for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and
you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek
after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color,
without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals.
You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us
and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is
that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like.
My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me
for.

I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual,
but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike."

http://www.phrack.org/archives/issues/7/3.txt
Fun anecdata from my own life:
I grew up under varying amounts of poverty and now I make Big TechCo money. As I have gotten a lot better about shedding a certain kind of survival-hoarding-mindset "I don't need to keep <this half-broken thing> because I can get a new one when I need one again", I have found myself developing new neuroses about "waste" of things that my old self would have considered insignificant: (personal) office supplies, succulent leaves that have fallen off but that I can propagate, 5-year-old magazines I haven't read yet. It's like I maintained some amount of the anxiety but in the absence of the pressure to direct it usefully, it's gone cuckoo.
C.f. https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/10/05/gan-video-conferenc...

Our relationship to chat bots and assistants is going to get a lot more unsettling in a few years.

Consider the difference in cognitive load and emotional burden between a human hitting you up in the Whole Foods parking lot to donate, and, the junk mail you deleted/recycled.

We have no defenses against autonomic-level mirror neuron empathic response when the uncanny valley is bridged...

Imagine the call center bot whose eyes flick to one side for a moment, that being the tell of when a call center human takes over to handle a corner case.

OH LAWD ITS COMIN
If this were written today, most of the advice would be tips and tricks for getting your papers into high-profile journals and writing grants. Which in turn boils down to having a good pedigree from your PhD and postdoc advisors.
What part of it breaks for you? It's not that I don't believe you, and I've seen this sentiment before, but I've used Arch as my daily driver for about five years, and can't recall a single time where it broke from a system update.
In most legitimate uses of NFTs the creator is the artist.
i'm not hard of hearing so maybe i'm just missing something, but what's the point of the signtime service? wouldn't a text chat be a whole lot easier?
How validated was the side project when you bought it? Were there already paying customers? What kind of due diligence did you do in order to find out if the project was worth buying?
Very cool! I didn't even think about running iOS apps on the M1, my brain jumped to a physical iOS device but that makes total sense. It probably solves the annoyance of burning a whole browser (by setting it's mic to the fake input from loopback) when you redirect it to app running on the M1. I have Google Chrome Beta installed as my "Otter.ai client" so that I don't have to mess with it on my main Chrome instance. Thanks for sharing your setup, it's very interesting!
What was the MRR when you acquired it, and how much effort did it take on your end to shape it into a workable product? Was code quality good enough?
And I consider the current stock market and money printing the greatest ponzi propagated in the history of mankind. That’s why I crypto.
Except it's not zero sum. It's turning out to be one of the most leveraged assets out there. If I borrow money (or print tether) to buy BTC at $50k and then the price drops to $35k that money is gone.
"A strip poker game on my c64."

I can only imagine what this must have looked like.
The creator is almost always the artist. Provenance is what gives NFTs their value. The value of a Beeple NFT minted by a random user is $0.
IRC is already dying anyway. This will just speed up the process.
This is not a property of NFTs, but rather of new, unproven technologies. If NFTs "make it big", there will be plenty of middlemen that spring up to "help" artists sell NFTs while owning the IP rights and collecting royalties.
Interesting read, but I can easily come up with way more complicated scenarios. Imagine inheriting the house of your dying relative who forgot to unlock the key. Or needing to split the inheritance with your siblings ... according to local law.

Leaving Blockchain aside, it would be cool if clearing house, such as Euroclear, would record -- but not decide -- ownership of non-financial assets too. Think houses, cars, bikes, artwork, everything!
There’s a reason for all those legal, settlement, due diligence costs, and regulations. Finding ways around monetary regulations is called “money laundering” and “fraud” and it’s already illegal. So I wouldn’t recommend pursuing this path.
I have seen the internals of Frontier communications, and the area I saw, was completely run by consulting companies, that were all competing with each other not over contracts, but over which parts of Frontier's corporate hierarchy they had ownership of. It was normal for employees of the various consulting groups to jokingly compare which group was doing the most aggressive job to overcharge frontier comm. I have never stood in one location, and seen so many consulting groups managing so many people, doing so little productive work.

I am not surprised to learn they have had financial problems.
Sorry, but I agree with @gojomo. Making it public in your bio that you are afilliated with a project, is very sufficient disclosure in my opinion.

No one expects you to read every bio of every comment you read, but conversely we shouldn’t expect him to preface every single one of his comments with “Hey guys, I’m the project lead of Matrix.”

Arathorn is very active in comments, and it’s well known to frequent readers he is the project lead of Matrix.
Actually, yes. Likely fewer people would leave and there would be far fewer repercussions to be honest about the canary than for someone to discover it was falsely put up. The longer the charade goes on, the worse the blowback will be.
There's also material differences, there's a reason the Nissan CEO from that era is currently a fugitive and on trial for financial misconduct.

And not by some technicality either, he literally hired a paramilitary group to disguise themselves as musicians and smuggle him out of Japan while on bail.

Since 2001 Nissan has used their defective CVT transmission in the vast majority of their lineup from the compact Versa to the Pathfinder SUV (aside from the sports cars and pickup trucks).

The average time to failure depends slightly on the model, but it's often around 60-70k miles.

The cost to replace it is typically most if not more than the value of a typical Nissan.

Because they were selling defective cars, their buyers dried up, so they had to resort to buyers with sub-prime credit. At this point it's joked the Nissan Altima is the official car of bad credit or bad neighbourhoods.

While the poor upkeep by the sub-prime owners certainly doesn't help, the poor resale value is largely due to everyone knowing they are ticking time bombs.

I've shopped for many different used 10-15 year old cars, and through my research have found the used market is extremely accurate in pricing in expected upkeep or failures, even among different variants of the same model from the same brand.

When I wanted an W211 E-class Mercedes (2003-2009), I researched the common failures and the cost to repair. I found the whole range was actually priced pretty similarly once you factored that in.

There were major defects in the 2003-2004 models which would cost around $2500 to fix. The 2005+ models were worth about $2500 more than a 2004 (despite only being worth $5000 and $7500)

The E500 had an air suspension failure issue which would be around $2000 to remedy, the same model year E320 with normal suspension was worth $2000 more. And for 2003-2004 they were only worth $3000 and $5000 respectively.

After months of browsing craigslist and test drives, it was clear it didn't matter which model or year I bought, a Mercedes W211 E-class was going to cost me $7500.

At that point I figured I'd just keep saving and get a Lexus 2IS for $10,000 as it was much better value despite the difference in owner reputation.

tldr: The used market knows exactly what a car is worth regardless of owner reputation. Nissans are worthless because they're shit cars.
Didn't know RSS-Bridge existed, that's great!

Sadly, I already reinvented the wheel for the primary RSS-less site I use (the DoN's ALNAVS listing: https://www.mynavyhr.navy.mil/References/Messages/ALNAV-2021...). On my site, myrss.xml is a symbolic link to myrss.py, which reads the ALNAVs site, parses the main table, updates a sqlite database of titles, links, publication dates, and descriptions, and spits out the RSS representation of everything in the database.

https://pastebin.com/TeQiWN42

Maybe I'll have to play with RSS-Bridge next time I run into something similar!
Two things.

First, in the real world, creators stop getting royalties after the item expires and goes into the public domain, and there's a pretty strong view that the time for that is already too long and the beneficiaries of that long period tend to be companies instead of creators. I would say that there is in fact a widespread belief that the heirs of Walt Disney are too wealthy, despite the fact that Walt himself was a creator.

Second, there's no reason to believe this won't lead to the exact sort of mechanisms that plague existing royalties - e.g., a young singer makes a (smart) contract with a recording studio to have the studio count as the "creator" of the work as far as the contract cares, and the singer is just performing work for hire, in exchange for marketing, promotion, initial funding, and connections. A singer who has absolutely no resources but their talent is probably going to say yes to that, because it's better for them in the short term than going it alone, and the odds are against them (not every talented young singer can become famous). But the profits continue to flow to the recording studio for all time.
There are so many dimensions of skills related to software development that it's really meaningless to compare which areas are "easier" or "harder".

Some people are better in some areas, and it's usually a combination of time invested and talent.
Well, yes, but are you the sort of independently generationally wealthy money-hoarder I'm referring to, or just one of the many folks who, while not poor, are still basically wage slaves who can't quit their jobs because they have a mortgage, kids, student loans, and need the health insurance? If you're the latter, the convenience factor is a money factor in disguise: you're so busy trying to maintain yourself and your family that you don't really have time to make your own lunch.
You wouldn't formally transfer title, because the corporate entity owning the property would remain the same. Corporations can change ownership without triggering any title changes on the real property they own. For example if Hilton Inc. was acquired by a private equity firm, it wouldn't require any title transfer on the hotel properties they own.
> Obviously examples like the guy who didn’t notice his paycheque bouncing are a sign people around you are wealthy though.

That means you’re wealthy now. I grew up fairly poor but with 10+ years in the industry I probably wouldn’t notice a missing paycheck for a while. I’m making 5-10x more than as a teenager. Doesn’t mean I grew up as some kind of an aristocrat
Because it's hyperbolic, most if it is just fawning about how great Freenode was which had nothing to do with the question, and it did not answer the question at all.

Original question: "there is not a single name of a real person anywhere on the site that I can find. there is only a reference to ownership by "a non-profit association in Sweden." Is it normal for the staff of such a project to be secret?"

Your answer: "They did address the ownership. It's a non-profit." Not named. And then you had a bunch of stuff about unnamed people who chose not to put their names or nicks anywhere on the site, when the question is "why wouldn't they associated their names/nicks with this?"
FYI, squeezebox is a nickname for the accordion going back decades before internet streaming.

For example, in 1975, The Who released the song "Squeeze Box" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n02PD18cFs).
>Colleagues are peers, people I graduated with are peers, but von Neumann is almost like another species.

Von Neumann's contemporaries agreed, which is why he and other Ashkenazi Jews from Hungary were nicknamed Martians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists) . Societal and genetic pressures over centuries produced unusually high IQs (and some associated genetic problems).
How long did it take to recover your investment?

And if you had to do it over again would you buy the business again or did it change dramatically enough that you'd try to create it from scratch next time?
Brief summary, please correct me if I'm wrong.

A ZigZag structure is an undirected graph. Nodes are arranged in an n-dimensional space. For each coordinate axis, every node can only have one edge in the plus-1-along-coordinate direction, and one edge in the minus-1-along-the-coordinate. I.e. no diagonal connections, and max one connection in each "cardinal direction" (+ and - in n dimensions = 2n directions).

In its simplest form, a ZigZag structure can be an n-dimensional grid, where each node is connected to its direct neighbors in the grid. In 2D, that would give you a spreadsheet. However, ZigZag can do more: you can have loops along any axis, e.g. a spreadsheet where the columns "wrap around". Furthermore, ZigZag supports looping the columns of only one particular row: a normal 2D spreadsheet, except that row 13 only has 4 columns, and those columns are wrapped up in a loop. You could also have sparse grids - where nodes are missing, and the edges skip over the missing node.

The idea is to have something that locally, if you look only at the surrounding nodes, always looks like a neat n-dimensional grid. But the global topology can be totally whacky.

I have no idea what you would use such a thing for.
>Imagine if cryptocurrency started doing that?

Isn't this essentially what proof of steak is? A tax on all transactions proportional to how much you already own, but disproportionately applied to smaller users.

That last bit is key. Speaking of Ethereum for a second - the largest asset owners will be institutions which can transact off-chain, which means that fees are being payed more often by folks that don't have that kind of scale.
Unit testing is "what" you test, it's your scope. And regression testing is "why" you're testing, you running tests to detect regressions.
Their baking does taste amazing.

But Amish women are often employed at local farmers markets to add local color and entice tourists into buying non-Amish bakery goods.

That the Amish, a fairly closed culture, are objects of tourism, has always struck me as pretty damn weird.

While it may reflect a nostalgia or longing for a simpler life, I know I wouldn't last long keeping a working farm alive. Plain lives are hard work.
The researcher got their data from Facebook, who don't have the long and complicated application and vetting process that NHS Digital have.

NHS data has strong legal protection, and NHS Digital are really zealous on enforcing it, to the point where critical national projects can't access the data they need.
The value of a Beeple NFT minted by a random user is exactly what the market chooses to value it as.

If it's minted by an agency that helps creators do marketing, and the agency gets the creator to say "Yes, this is a legitimate NFT created on my behalf by this agency, which has been very helpful to me in understanding NFTs, I don't understand these fancy computer things," why would the value be zero?

(This exact scenario plays out all the time in the real world. People bought "Taylor Swift's" album Fearless, which was authorized by her and contained her actual voice and songwriting and paid profits to her and was in all senses legitimate, and paid well over zero dollars for it. And then over a decade later she tells her fans that she doesn't control it and she's recording her own version of the album actually owned by her.)
> How is comparing Bitcoin's energy usage with other endeavors an "order of magnitude fallacy"?

The "other endeavors" category above was "digital endeavours" and specifically "Bitcoin versus Facebook", which is an order of magnitude difference.

You've introduced an entirely different category from the above discussion. It's maybe an interesting category [1] to discuss elsewhere, but is off topic from the fallacy we were discussing. Thanks for the non-sequitur, though.

[1] Personally, I'm not so sure it's a useful counter-comparison to Bitcoin: Gold is used in electronics and other industrial needs, beyond its service as a value store/commodity of interest to collectors. Gold is also increasingly rarely the "primary" focus of mines. Most of our Gold today comes from Copper mines and very few would argue we are mining Copper as a value store/solely for greed.
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yes, i should have mentioned trust earlier, as that’s even more important than information in negotiations. two parties who don’t know each other will start with relatively low trust, so highly divergent bids are a signal of that. as information is shared, and assuming trust signals trend positive, the bids converge. also, you want to know early if the other party is a sucker or unreasonable, and to weed out lemons. all that’s a direct consequence of our intuitive sense of fairness and value.

salary negotiations are a little fraught because they’re low trust and information-asymmetrical to start but because jobs are a longer term relationship, you don’t want to trigger distrust. one of the reasons employers like to keep salaries/comp private is that it gives them an significant information advantage in negotiations. they know every comp package they’re paying and that they’ve offered, as well as comp packages at various other companies and industry average info that they subscribe to. it’s often prohibitively expensive for each worker to gather similar data, which creates a real disadvantage.

in light of that, i’d suggest starting at 110% of what you’d consider a reasonable maximum, not minimum, and have 3 justifications ready (based on value you’ve generated for other companies, your overall experience level, specific skills/relationships/resources you bring to bear, public salary/comp information, etc.) to counter the obvious first objections (usually on experience or comparative comp data). anchoring high, but not unreasonably so, and then negotiating with justification should get you a higher comp package while not triggering distrust. you’ll also learn some important bits about the company which may give you reason to forego the offer (happened to me a couple times actually).
As I noted, I'm definitely not the most experience in implementing messaging system. Can you recommend some articles or books on distributed systems and messaging that I should know?
You couldn't sell a cover intended for phone books, a shoulder-rest intended for AT&T (well, Bell Electric / Western Bell) handsets, or an answering machine that would be connected to phone-system wiring.

It was a pretty brutal monopoly.
This is indeed correct. While I understand the predicament of being far from the switch reduces speeds, it’s a bit absurd when you’re paying for 12, but can only get 3. (This is not an exaggeration.)
Has anyone noticed how many Crypto rooms are currently on Clubhouse? Mostly led by paid clubhouse admins, trying to pump up crypto and who always have a extra stash to 'buy the dip'. This entire scenario smells of a scam led by companies like A16Z (investor in Clubhouse and other Crypto companies) and other whales like Musk, who have been playing with these coins/token prices since last year.
next 3070s are going to crippled for EtherMining so you'll be good.... gonna pick a 3080Ti up myself to run some Yolo4 models

https://videocardz.com/newz/msi-confirms-geforce-rtx-3080-ti...
> But crypto clones are much easier to create

Agreed.

> and have adopted than a company with real infra

Disagreed. Cloning is super-easy, adoption is super-hard.
And have you thought about finding out who your maids and drivers are? Talking to them about their lives?

No interest in learning who they are? What they like? When they have birthday?

If you have a bad day, for whatever reason, you think they couldn't relate to having a bad day?
Can you embed a smart contract in an NFT so that if you wrap or otherwise sell outside of the initial chain, it’s null and void and the rights revert back to the creator to auction again?
> Mortgage underwriters can pool their blockchain based loans into pooled securities, and sell CDO-like products as smart contracts. This allows investors to completely bypass all the financial regulations and restrictions that exist on subprime mortgages.

This is exactly what https://www.figure.com/ is doing.
Associating everything you've ever written with your IP is a pretty big one, if there was ever any expectation of anonymity.
As someone with tinnitus (constant ringing in ears), this sounds amazing! :)
This might be regional. I had frontier in the Seattle area and it was rock solid. Fast and never went down. It was later renamed to ziply and it's just as good, the best internet I've had so far.
A decade ago I remember reading that if you’re in the jungle and an apex predator is spotted, it gets relatively quiet, so from an evolutionary perspective quiet signals danger and induces stress. Sounds reasonable to me, can’t speak to how valid it is though.
Google's Docs Dilemma
Exactly, so what is gained by switching to blockchain if it can't solve this issue?