skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just coded it in basic and the recorded it to a mini-casette lecture-recorder. Unfortunately, by that point the tones just triggered an operator call.
Not very much, as I work in a high position in traditional finance now and would rather not go into detail, but your perspective seems to match mine very closely. It's not even casinos, that'd be 100x better still. I've seen extreme cases of market manipulation, money laundering, insider trading and fraud. As in, life-long federal prison extreme. And, to be honest, "I've seen" is a major understatement, because essentially it has become a reasonable, generalised expectation to apply to anything you see now.

A notable example here are the "pre-sale investment groups", which essentially consists of morally corrupt criminals buying tokens pre-release e.g. for 2 cents, which will then be listed on major exchanges for 50 cents initial price. You can probably imagine what happens to everyone buying the token for 50 cents on release. This has gone so far that these "investment" groups had to come up with "vesting schedules", which are essentially designed to keep them from dumping on *each other*, in addition to keeping them from selling too much too fast and dumping the price and "painting bad charts".

This is also not a niche venture that only happens with a few select tokens, it's become a completely normal procedure that happens with almost every single new token, and insanely enough even the people further down the food chain have accepted this procedure as a reasonable fact and don't even question it any more. "Of course bro, whales provide liquidity"

I totally agree that protocols like Aave, Curve and some others are extremely cool and useful technology, however, I've come to the preliminary conclusion that the degenerate disgrace that makes up 99% of the space now is permanently and irreversibly damaging reputation to a point where this technology might be ignored despite being useful and solid.
The scale goes from “less moving parts” to “more focused”; the optimal point varies, but I don’t think you can get away from the fact that those are in opposition. Of course, the usual vernacular meaning of “more focused” is “does less things I don’t need”, but that’s not unrelated: because everyone needs a different subset of things, the more things a given piece of software needs the larger, on average, the proportion of those that you don’t need; so running more pieces of (less feature-rich) software seems necessary in order for having less stuff you don’t need or understand overall.

(In the specific case of TLS, I get additional warm fuzzies from being sure that, however screwed up the web server is, it cannot be confused[1] into revealing the secret keys when it does not have access to them in the first place. I don’t know to which extent this is actually important, though. A factotum[2]-like approach is a compromise that gives the web server the ephemeral keys in exchange for not having to pass the entirety of the traffic through the terminator, but I’m not aware of any practical implementations except for the one Akamai, disgustingly, patented[3] 10 years after the actual invention.)

[1] http://www.cap-lore.com/CapTheory/ConfusedDeputy.html

[2] https://www.usenix.org/conference/11th-usenix-security-sympo... or http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/auth

[3] https://patents.google.com/patent/US9531685B2 (wow, I though this was the Cloudflare patent, but that one, https://patents.google.com/patent/US8782774B1, is even more trivial)
> In the end, it turns out that you don't need admin powers to steal lots of money.

You just need to know the laws very well to steal a lot of money: this holds both in the "ordinary" world and for cryptocurrencies (there code is law).
Yeah - sorry, it won’t work if you say it like that.

They want returns! So you gotta offer them. “Invest in my coin and you will get 24% interest per month forever!”

Apparently they are smart enough to accumulate masses of money, but not smart enough to understand that you can’t (mathematically) take returns like that indefinitely.
In space, nobody can year you go transsonic...
At a certain point we need to remember that the legal system exists.
If you could easily change the battery, there'd be no problem with this function. As it stands, the glued in battery is also planned obsolescence.

There's quite a bit of it, isn't there? If your battery doesn't die, the software will cripple your phone. If you choose not to let it, you'll exepreince random reboots.

Its all a big elaborate plan to make you upgrade.

They're smart folks at Apple. They'll try something even more sneaky next time.
Isn't this the crux of the argument for investing more money into solar/wind/storage vs nuclear. The solar and wind stuff is already cheap enough, so its storage vs nuclear. Will nuclear get cheaper faster than grid-scale batteries? There is only so much capital that can be invested, and potential advancements in batteries are looking a lot more promising than advancements in nuclear. I think the lion's share of money should be going to renewables and batteries.
Could you please provide a reference to the EMA report you’re referring to.

I assume EMA stands for European Medicines Agency. If so, the numbers of side effects or adverse reactions listed on this page are not alarming to me.

https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/overview/publi...
Does that imply a large portion of our population are pedophiles? That is disturbing.
The goal of the recent initiatives is to create widespread passwordless authentication, so it seems likely that the number of services that support WebAuthn will grow dramatically over the next few years.
Agreed, as is Michio Kaku. They are the Zahi Hawass of astro physics.
People who see the crypto ads during superbowl and think they’d enjoy being rich
> Children are agents

Not really? They don't get to make their own decisions about any meaningful aspect of their lives, and can be lawfully imprisoned, punished, and controlled by their parents. Children have just a few more rights than pets. This has been true for all of history.

> And children / adults aren't a binary thing

Yes, they are. Off the top of my head: once you are legally able to make and be held responsible for your own decisions, can't be punitively confined against your will without due process, are able to enter into legal agreements, and do not need a guardian, you are an adult. Until then, you are a child. These things normally happen around the age of majority, which is 18 in most places [1].

I'm not suggesting that children never be given the opportunity to make their own choices, quite the opposite in fact. I'm suggesting that children be conditioned to the realities of work and life from an early age. The capability to tolerate dull, monotonous, boring work is essential to accomplish just about anything. This is the skill of delaying gratification, and its importance can hardly be overstated.

> They can survive the world just fine without having the official educational path shoved down their throat.

Just how much education do you think is optional to "survive in the world just fine"? Literacy? Numeracy?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_majority
Probably not what you meant, but the US Credit Score is a very opaque system, but I would wager to say that the majority of people would like to see that code changed[1] (or more likely, abolished).

Though I suppose we're not "users" of such a system, but are rather "subjected to it"

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_score_in_the_United_Sta...
How many people did you need to wrangle to get this to happen?

I saw a Comcast truck driving down my street a few months ago. I chased him down and asked if they were putting in broadband, and he said "No, I'm just checking the line levels, but you are the fourth person on this street today to chase me down and ask me the same question..."
I think you're confused, I'm asking how what the GP said (a blockchain where a fork couldn't happen) could ever be possible.
Same question that comes up with nearly every such application of crypto-tech in business or government: Why can't they just do that with a database?
Bind, in the legal sense, is much different than influence.
I’d say that’s why they hold crypto. Many more buy and don’t hold very long at all, to buy things where the seller may also not hold very long at all.
suckers
Interestingly, AAVE, Curve, Maker, and Compound - all old school, plain vanilla DeFi projects - still have the highest value locked by a big margin.

Once you go beyond these functional but boring DeFi projects, you run into a ton of scams, wild "experiments for the sake of experiments", and projects that are just trying to extend the ponzis built on top of established protocols.

Take all the forks. One algostable becomes successful and suddenly there are hundreds of forks that collapse within days, sometimes hours (TOMB is an example).

Most of the promises of DeFi are absolutely nothing but pure ponzis that collapse once new money stops coming in. OHM chart is the best example. "Reserve currency" that dropped 99% because new money stopped coming in.

What it essentially boils down to is the simple question: what's the use of these projects besides making money? Don't get me wrong - speculation can be a use case. But I've never heard of speculators take the holier-than-thou, "we'll change the world" tone that crypto proponents seem to take.
You're going to hear complaints about bias in selecting the types of problems.
Best comment I've ever read on HN.
>>by volume most human interactions do not have to worry about censorship.
>I suspect this will increase over time.
Do we still have to qualify this with suspicion? In a lot of ways, it's already increasing.
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> You just need to know the laws very well to steal a lot of money: this holds both in the "ordinary" world and for cryptocurrencies (there code is law).

With cryptocurrency, code is more like possession. The law is still law.
Aren't all sales at that level disclosed publicly, well in advanced/regulated?
Yeah I agree we don’t know the full circumstances. But the data coming out of the pandemic in particular has been a mess. Like the stories of inmates having to improvise masks.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/11/us/jails-prisons-vaccine-prio...
Web engineers have the tendency to think everything should run into a browser and it's a disgrace of the modern times.
Disagreements with this article via a claim that says technology inherently centralizes, to me, seems flawed.

The concept of democracy was evolved as a system that could distribute social power in order to catalyze the wider involvement of its members in their own social and economic concerns.

All the way back to Alexis De Tocqueville in the 1800s (in his book Democracy in America),

Tocqueville attributes the ultimate success of liberty in America, however, to a feature of American political order he refers to as “administrative decentralization,” which–going beyond federalism as such–fosters the participation of citizens in “real . . . political life” beginning at the local (sub-state) level. [1]

To me, a series of decentralized, shared ownership systems that come together to provide and replace the functionality that has today been built into centralized networks is the only way to achieve any kind of "liberty" (however one may define that word).

The missing link for these systems has historically been cost - who runs the servers that runs these systems, and who pays to develop them? It is exactly for this reason that they were centralized in the first place.

Today, we've got one way to solve for these problems (tokens). I'm sure there will be more. But they will all be catalysts towards this direction.

Edit: To comments talking about how protocols won't just be replaced by big companies.

All companies ultimately care about one thing -- distribution. They will continue to be the direct link between customers / users and the service they provide. The difference is that they will need to build upon the protocol that has the most distribution.

If we imagine a new open protocol for "online document comments" that existed, Google Docs AND Office online could use it and have interoperable commenting from each other's identity systems vs the state of the landscape today. what would their motivation be to do it? Same as using open source libraries like ffmpeg or openSSL -- except this time, they don't pay to host the APIs that power this protocol.

[1] https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?rec...
In crypto, they just call insider trading "Alpha" and get away with it.
dude what?? excellent

> Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. He is currently the only person to win both a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for both his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) back-to-back. A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card co-produced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series The Tales of Alvin Maker (1987–2003).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card
I agree. We do have plans to support free "social SSO" in the future with certain providers.

<rant>

... now if people would only pay for software without some lever like this we'd make SSO included.

I was just ranting on this topic earlier today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31676011#31680304

SSO is a fairly decent "are you a business or an individual" lever, which is why the SSO tax exists. Otherwise businesses will not pay anything and then complain when you disappear.

As I always say: people will pay $10 every day for a latte and a donut at Starbucks but you have to twist their arms to get them to pay much less than that for software they get tons of value from.

</rant>
> And yes, your simulation should include that Monty always shows a goat.

I feel like I've said this thirty times now, I'm specifically discussing a misinterpretation of the problem where Monty does not know what he's opening, so he sometimes opens a prize door. A game where Monty always opens a goat door is the original, correct Monty Hall Problem, and switching is the correct strategy.
But that's an interesting facet in itself. The more common refrain you hear in corporate settings is "we need a ground-up rewrite" - how did these projects manage not to need that? I have my suspicions, but it's a very interesting question nonetheless.
Aphantasia[1]

My partner has it to the point where her dreams aren't even visual. I am on the other end of the spectrum. It's hard to describe but concepts are 'seen' and then monologued not the other way around. It's not synesthesia but a kind of mental mapping my brain does.

Interesting side effect is that I have an extremely poor visual memory for places, faces, etc. It all gets jumbled up with the other representations in my brain. At least that's what it feels like.

It seems to be a wiring thing rather than a learned skill. I can't ever think of a time where I didn't have this mode of thought.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
You know that was exactly the point the parent was making?
> The gold standard was the basis for the international monetary system from the 1870s to 1971 with some brief interruptions. Before that, other commodities were used as the underpinnings of the monetary system for as long as humanity has utilized currency. These are all deflationary currencies.

In what world is gold deflationary? The supply of available gold generally increases. The difference is that the expansion of the supply of gold is less flexible and harder to control.

Gold is also vunerable to supply shocks. For those weak on history, I suggest learning about the effects on global currencies due to the european pillaging of the Americas for precious metals.

Also, nothing prevents cryptocurrencies from having a mint rate that makes them inflationary. You don't really see that much because all "currency-like" projects with cryptocurrencies are still fundementally about inflating a speculative bubble to get early adopters rich.
Well probably you have never met management that is keyword drive. We need 100 percent scalable system with zero downtime upgrade and support thousand customers update.
Current number of customers : 0
Number of customers in pipeline: 0
Maintaining internal forks is time consuming and expensive. For big tech companies they might end up saving money on infrastructure but small companies can end up sinking a lot of human resources into the project (especially if you're playing whack-a-mole with upstream changes moving in different directions and breaking things)

Open sourcing things increases the likelihood it'll be upsteamed (the use case is more obvious) and increases the likelihood you'll get support (although you now have a community to support). In addition, it's easier to plead your case if upstream breaks something (here's my source vs vague statements about an internal thing at company x)
Moving to another Git host is much easier than moving out of the USA.
Hi, I'm the author of this one ( I lost the other account password). I'm happy I found someone else doing this stuff to be able to talk about it. I discarded time related algorithms because I thought they could introduce sneaky bugs related to event dependencies. So, having had to work in the gamble industry, I opted for a simpler algorithm: roulette. I have a loop increasing a register from 0 to 15, when a particle is detected the value present in that registry is returned and it's used as an half of a 8 bits ( 1 byte ) random number and, after every extraction, the counter is restarted from zero. If anyone think the algorithm is unreliable, any suggestion to improve it's welcome.
What a coincidence that the guy's last name is literally the name of a famous Nintendo antagonist.

TLDR: Apparently he was involved with Xecutor selling modchips.
I disagree, the live server is super practical. Are you sure it takes a lot if energy to the dev BTW?

I especially like Hugo plugged with Netlify CMS. Free, powerful, and robust.

The learning curve is steep but it worth it.

Only caveat though: the "Bus factor" is very low and it's sometime intimidating to contribute on the Github tracker
Embedded is much less likely to need async in the first place at all.
I cannot answer that. It is obviously bipartisan, however, because conservative state legislatures are attempting to regulate abortion access in other states.
But how does blockchain help here, compared with other ways of syncing data?
> Developers should advocate for their craft and for quality, and business metrics should hold an adversarial position to balance things out.

What makes you think this isn't the case? Business metrics holding an adversarial position over other interests obviously doesn't preclude business metrics defeating other interests.
Nothing? How about the ability to self-regulate, and other acts of personal sovereignty? Learn and adapt, network gets stronger for all. Do Kwan is a circus act with elephants - he got implicitly deplatformed if not explicitly.
One thing that trips a lot of people up is that the problem is never explicit about the knowledge or strategy of the host. Would he offer you the choice to switch if you initially picked the wrong door?

If I'm playing this game in real life, my intuition isn't going to be calculating the correct mathematical odds, but rather thinking "this guy is trying to screw me".

So a 1/3 chance that you can be sure of is better than a 2/3 one which is based on trusting your opponent.
> Nuclear regulations sets safety standards substantially higher than safety stands for other power sources.

Ok, but this surely only is an argument that other sources should be regulated harsher (and fossil fuels absolutely should), not that we must make nuclear less safe.
A few people do get rich with crypto (without even cheating).

The startup ecosystem is very similar: the large majority of founders and many employees[1] don’t win. A few win very nicely thank you very much.

[1] eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31595393
Brain power on a ledger? I've heard it all now.

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien: “Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.”
I think you underestimate this quite a bit. Even running android things on desktop linux would be a feat since the android kernel has several significant android-specific additions such as binder IPC. And even the user-space android API surface is vast
Also single threaded performance over parallelism
Those ain't as mutually exclusive as you assert.
It is a tax on deposits. You only have to pay if you have deposits. Basically, it means the saver has to pay to store value as currency. On the other hand, they also have to pay if they want to store other valueables, such as gold or the most ancient store of value of all, grain.

I don't think a negative real interest rate is inherantly unfair, any more than it was unfair to have 10% of grain go to waste 3000 years ago when storing for a bad year.

If you had 7 good years, and expect 7 bad years, the utility of the stored grain may be way higher in the bad years than the good years, even when accounting for the waste. The same goes for cash.

The same can be true with cash.

To demand that cash maintains its purchasing power, is the same as ancient farmers demanding to purchase grain from their neighbour (who did save) in a bad year as they themselves got paid for their grain during the good years.

In periods of growth, we may start to think that positive time preference is natural. But the fact is that throughout most of human history, we would switch to negative time preference in good times, since we expected bad times to come back. During good times, humans would store grain, dry meat, fish and fruit, build housing, tools or boats, all of which were investments into goods that were likely to gradually perish over time.

Even after people started to use coins, this was true. If you produced a surplus during one year, you could trade it for cold coin instead of storing it. But not only was there a risk that the coins would be stolen or otherwise vanish, it was also highly likely that at the time where you needed to spend that goal, prices would be higher.
While the EU doesn't have a "constitution" per se, it does have several documents and treaties that serve a similar purpose. From the article:

>one crucial question in the upcoming policy debate will be whether this latter measure, or its implementation, is compatible with the rights of privacy and data protection under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (the Charter).

The Charter of Fundamental Rights serves as the EU Bill of Rights (the American version of which accounts for a huge portion of "constitutional" jurisprudence), and the Treaty of Lisbon makes that charter legally binding. Of note is that a previous iteration of said Treaty was explicitly called "Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe" and was ratified by most of the member states.
If the iPhone was never released in 2007, Android would have picked up the smartphone slack.
I think you misunderstand the Russian situation a little bit. Russia has not blocked the movement of cash - you can transfer out up to $50k per month to self or relative. Secondly, the cut off from SWIFT has meant that it takes longer to transfer rather than inability to transfer. Oligarchs don't need to transfer anything - frozen accounts are still accessible for personal expenditure so it's not like they are starving. Moving to crypto for business deals is obviously a non starter.
This is very true and I think it applies to everything, not just software. I was an anarchist at heart until I understood that if you just remove all the rules they all just come back with different names, and often in an inferior form.
The gotcha to that, of course, is that while you're enticing people to stay in the company, you're doing nothing necessarily to keep them on a single project within that company.