skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> difference between a mistake and intentionally transposing two numbers

This is slightly rambling/OT:

I dated a girl who would do that regularly to guys who were being entirely too aggressive about getting her number. She told me it was a pretty effective tactic to shake them off, and even if they figured out it was the wrong number it could be passed off as an innocent mistake.

I'm also fairly certain there's a girl who lives near where I grew up (and likely has a mobile number a short levenshtein distance from mine) who does the same thing, as I have literally no connections to that area, other than my immediate family, who have the same area code and exchange that my mobile number does. Nevertheless, I do occasionally get texts/calls from random guys obviously trying to contact a woman who is not me (this has been happening for almost a decade).

But! To add to your point - what if the aggressive dude trying to get your phone number works for a federal LEO? Could they use the system to hold your disinterest in them against you, just out of spite?

[edit: words for clarity]
Eh that seems a bit harsh. Wasn't Ferris in Uber's pre-seed or seed round? Plus he mentions Facebook, Shopify, Twitter and Alibaba on his AngelList. I'm pretty sure if you're one guy making $25-$100k bets and hit early on any one of those it is more than enough for you to be considered pretty good.
I really wish I could bet against this XKCD style its quite a sure thing.

It doesn't make sense plus we know there are competing issues at play as people try to get get know in their fields by finding 'the oldest'

Extrodinay claims need extrodinay evedence here they seem to have fit a theory that would lack provable evedence as a explanation.
How graphene solar panels solved the most disadvantages in solar panels
Provide the information anonymously. There are multiple layers of danger in doing otherwise, even aside from the widely cited don't-talk-to-police video. You must consider possible collusion between the police and criminal gangs, for example. The criminals may be using the police to identify witnesses for elimination.
Right ... as long as you don't control "the rest of the network", which is what a 51% attack is.

Faced with two competing chains, my understanding is that the bitcoin network chooses the longer one, assuming that the other tangents are dead (either due to a policy change or an invalid block).

In practice it would probably help to control more than 51% of the network, but it's called a 51% attack because theoretically, that's all you need to create the longest (that is, the winning) chain.
No, it's not a race to a finish line, it's a race to find a random number that when placed in the block header hashes to a value that is less than the difficulty. The difficulty is adjusted as desdiv said above based on the network performance in the previous period. When network hashrate increases significantly, the next difficulty adjustment happens sooner and if the hashrate dropped dramatically then it would happen slower.

The better analogy would be a race to turn over stones looking for the one with the secret on the back but the number of stones was adjusted for the previous number of searchers and now with fewer searchers it will take longer for any of them to find it.
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The analogy helps a lot. Funny how that reality distortion field effect kicks in for something that seems obviously bad.
Thoughts around OWASP Top 10 controversy? Should we use it or not?
The landing page copy is still really bad - "Whenever Audrey do not understand your request, you can teach it so that it can understand you the next time."

How am I supposed to trust that you are capable of building an AI when you can't get basic grammar correct? Don't build a marketing page when you're bad at marketing :)

Edit:

Just to clarify - I mean that the poor grammar is likely due to that fact that English probably isn't your first language and has no relationship to your abilities writing software. But, for consumer facing products such as yours, it's probably important that you get these small things right.
Brain does not equal intelligence.
The Datacenter as a Computer, Introduction Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines
> arguably the outdoor recreation capital of the US
... as long as you don't mind being damp the whole time. It's not a nice place to be outdoors much of the year.
And people could...idk...work on solar rigs to maintain these systems!
I'm not a VC, but I would assume the question is not whether a venture is risky or not, but whether it is worthwhile. All startups are exceptionally risky.

YC has already funded at least one Bitcoin startup, which is currently doing quite well for itself (Coinbase).

Of all the ASICs that could be built, mining ASICs are the least risky. Their logic is simple, repetitive, and self testing. They have the highest yield and are the most flexible for binning.

And cryptocurrency mining has a _long_ history of pre-sales. That effectively eliminates all risk.
If my Robinhood trades of 100 lots of more execute at a few pennies higher than the price when I place the order

They're not really allowed to do that and I don't think they are doing that. Robinhood (or whatever wholesaler they route your order too) is required to execute your order within the nbbo. They can't just e.g. fill your buy orders a few cents above the national best offer because they want to make some extra money. The regulations don't work that way...
> substantial amounts of effort went into also monitoring upstream kernels and carefully picking out security relevant commits and closing holes

This would better be a project done by these same people, in the upstream, to ensure that the -stable branches of regular kernel packages receive security updates, no?
+ This. I keep a similar smaller trading account where I effectively gamble with stock picking. I do this as I enjoy researching and understanding businesses and find things more interesting, and you see opinions more honestly when I put money where my mouth is. And it helps you stay engages with your reading. I leave the 'retirement' investments elsewhere.
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Doesn't sound like it can be real (if "most Senate staff ID cards have a photo of a chip printed on them, rather than a real chip" you have to keep track of who gets a real card and who a faked one, and that, I guess, costs more than you win by using cheaper cards), but it's late for an April fools joke, and that PDF (https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3675403/cUt-5DPB....), if faked, is quite a good fake.
Ask the guy who came up with this scenario. But, obviously, we do at some point find it easier to set up side-by-side computers with (relatively) high-latency connections (like, say, ethernet) than to try to put more computing resources together with low-latency connections (like motherboard busses), for physical reasons.
We don't play a fool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDlAqhulJmw&t=1s
The undersea cables don't need to be cut, they're perfectly capable of breaking on their own.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basslink#2015-2016_outage
Oh boy. Much respect for Kevin Kelly, but I am afraid he missed the mark with his analysis.

Unfortunately he gets hung up on the definition of Intelligence - and not unreasonably so - because it is very ill defined and largely unknown. So all of what he says is true, but orthogonal to the argument he is trying to debunk.

It's basically setting up a pedantic straw man and then taking it apart.

There are other great and more compelling arguments against an all powerful superhuman AGI, unfortunately he doesn't make any of those.
Couldn't reproduce.

Different A/B test group? Or could just be that the site is hot garbage, every time I reload the banner/overlay ad and top bar behave slightly differently, I can see how that could happen but I couldn't get it to do quite what you've seen after like 20 reloads.
As I stated, there are two ways to tax an LLC: as a corporation (with a a separate proposed tax rate of 15%), and as a partnership (pass-through to taxpayer, no separate tax, taxpayer pays at individual rate). I posted the text of the plan, and there is no pass-through limit of 15%.

There are no pass-through limits in the current law. If there was a 15% pass-through tax limit, it would be absurd, because everyone in the 25% and 35% tax brackets would just form LLCs and get paid through that.

The Times is misconstruing the plan in order to give an absurd result, which they have done in the past with Trump.
That's not a straw man. You said:

> The tax instituted by our founding fathers, specifically as a safeguard against the creation of an aristocratic class?

fr0sty essentially said that your original statement should be amended to something like: "The tax instituted by our founding fathers, specifically (so they said) as a safeguard against the creation of an aristocratic class, and then repealed five years later to show that they weren't very serious about preventing aristocracy (or no longer believed in the tax as a cure for it).

And a 0.2% tax rate is directly relevant to the actual effectiveness of the tax at preventing the aristocracy (as in, not very effective at all).

You also said:

> A tax that ONLY affects people with more than 5 million at time of death?

But that's the current state of affairs now. When originally implemented, it applied to estates as small as $50. Placing that in the very next sentence to the founding fathers has the potential to be misleading.
hey, i'm the guy who is developing shape shifter. glad to see you have been using it. if you have any feature requests or suggestions i'd love to hear them! just file something on GitHub: https://github.com/alexjlockwood/ShapeShifter/issues

p.s. IDK if you have used the tool recently, but i just published an update that makes the tool much easier to use IMO. :)
The probality is pretty low.
Hey,

So firstly, I don't work for AWS or Amazon, or any Cloud provider. Just wanted to make sure that was clear.

After reading your very interesting comment I thought I'd do some maths on the costs SES should be charging you. Essentially at $0.10 per 1,000 messages, and sending "several million" or "seven figures" worth of messages per month, so a possible total of 9,999,999, you should be paying almost exactly $1,000 for that. That's not really "THOUSANDS", but it is substantially more than $4 haha :)

If you're sending 5,000,000, then the figured drops to $500/month.

Anyway your $4/month server is a very cool concept. Would you be willing to share the configuration? Perhaps you've written an Ansible Playbook to provision it for you?

EDIT: So essentially my point is this: it's not that expensive, compared to compute resources to actually run your application, to have someone else manage all of that for you.
I'd prefer 25 good reputable vetted places - i guarantee some of these sites are not even loading.
Be Hard to Offend
Read this earlier. Anyone used docker containers? If so, have any tips?
Unique passwords for each device, some form of auto-updating so the OS and any webservers don't get too old and making sure the developers know about the OWASP Top 10 should go a long way to making the devices secure.

Anything else would be dependent on what the device is for and how it does it.
> You don't even have to accept the terms of the GPL just to run the program.

Why do so many pieces of FOSS software—especially in their Windows or macOS distributions—have clickwrap that makes me accept the GPL to install them? Are they just misinformed?
>Children, especially, need meat, physically active people need creatine, not easily gotten from plant-based foods.

This is entirely false, some meat marketers have duped you.
"Creatine is not an essential nutrient[8] as it is naturally produced in the human body from the amino acids glycine and arginine." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatine

There are entire countries that grow up vegetarian and turn out just fine.
Well, you sure can't point the power delivery beam at downtown LA either.

And the footprint of the rectenna array is enormous-- Tom assumes a 100GHz transmit antenna 30m wide, which means the downlink antenna has to be 3.6km wide! And this is the minor axis-- the solar array has to be geosynchronous orbit, which means any receiving antenna not on the equator has be an ellipse.
Most of these are not contractually obliged to run their own email servers so whatever problem they have, it's not that specific one.
> It seems like we've been pretty smart for a long long time. There are civilizations all over the globe that rose, fell, and died, and we will never ever know of them. The idea of 'civilization' is ancient, it seems.

I've wondered about that a lot, actually. If homo sapiens have been around for ~200k years (according to wikipedia), what were we doing for the first 185k years? What changed ~15k years ago that we started building cities, constructing tools, etc., and why did it take 185k years to happen?

On a larger time frame, how many species have lived and died and had every trace of their existence crushed and melted down by plate tectonics?

It's fascinating to think about, and a little sad that we'll never know the answer.
I can think of fun ways around that. For example, using setTimeout() and then Date.now deltas to communicate numeric values. Or communicating data via UI events (you have to be able to send network requests in response to UI events, for obvious reasons).

It wouldn't be possible to do that anyway without breaking important things like infinite scroll. Infinite scroll fundamentally requires network requests to be issued when an element is scrolled into view, but whether an element is in view depends on the results of layout, which depends on the user's installed fonts…
Your poor communication is probably killing employee productivity
Not sure why you're being downvoted. The Chinese are actively researching in the area of ultra high voltage DC transmission so that power can be distributed long distances from remote renewable resources. Even if the problem were as simple as a direct link from the Sahara to Finland, China has already built UHVDC transmission lines half that length. UHVDC technology is only improving with time and it's an exciting field to watch.

The economist had a reasonable article, though light on technical detail: http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2171432...
It's an inappropriate leap. Consumers should have ECC memory too.

However the consumer market has long decided to settle for ECC nowhere and cheap everywhere.

ECC hardware comes at premium option that can easily be +100%. You need support in the memory, the motherboard and the CPU.

Given the price difference, personal computers will have to live with the memory errors. People will not pay double for their computers. Manufacturers will not sacrifice their margin while they can segment the market and make a ton of money off ECC.
> Typically a population either grows exponentially or vanishes.

Well, logistically limited by the carrying capacity of the local area with available technology, etc.

But logistic growth looks exponential...until it doesn't.
The dat limit would be 20 gigs
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Awwww, thanks. We are kidnapping an English professor right now to do the job. You folks deserve high-quality material and we have fail to deliver it. We are terribly sorry and will improve.
the FAQ mentions "KERNSEAL, STRUCTGUARD" -- what are these? I tried searching on google but didn't find anything about either.
We've got one, but for the moment it's only in french. We're in the process of translating it, so we have not put it on the website for the moment, but here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itzBQSq3zH8
A cost/benefit analysis for a system where non critical operations are performed would seem to favor the non ECC memory. I suspect this is the case for the majority of people who have computers for their personal use, without taking into account that they might not even be aware such a thing exists. Although, I haven't compared ECC prices lately.
Europe is currently highly dependent on Russia's natural gas for their electricity; I don't see this as worse. Indeed, better to diversify your power imports.

(Better still to generate locally, but not every country has the land available to do so).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_in_the_European_energy_...
"What changed ~15k years ago that we started building cities, constructing tools, etc., and why did it take 185k years to happen?"

Old question, the answer is: Agricultural Revolution
"Sell them coin-operated shovels that we can remotely disable". Until they get caught. Oops.
Could Parkinson's Disease Start in the Gut?
I doubt that the 7 remaining users of OpenOffice are unlikely to change due to a security issue. They're used to them by now.
How astonishing that a nation like India is just now learning to poo in the loo, yet somehow we in the west still think it's sensible to outsource our tech work to them (and then act surprised when the results are less than stellar)
Reminds me of the story about the galaxy spanning AI in the Dune series. With a latency of 10000 light years between it's various instances.
I think my biggest problems include limited e-mail output (<10 week really, because it's just me) and I'm currently on Linode; most likely on a spammy subnet.

I do have static IPs for IPv4 and IPv6. Every spam analysis tool I've thrown at it says all my records are valid. My TLS cert is valid (paid for, but going to move to Lets Encrypt when it expires).

I'm planning on moving to another hosting service like Vultr. They do require individuals apply to host e-mail servers (an unblock the SMTP port) so maybe I'll have better luck there.
On the other hand, if you let the engineers run the shop, you might end up with another Juicero... an exquisitely designed product with few customers.
An old article from DJB worth perusal: http://cr.yp.to/hardware/ecc.html

It's also worth noting that not all ECC (SECDED) is created equal: ChipKill™ and similar might not survive physical damage because of likely shorts of the data bus but a single malfunctioning chip producing/experiencing higher hard error rate is possible from which to recover.

Also, it'd be really cool if some shop a-la BackBlaze blogged about large-scale monitoring for soft and hard RAM errors across chip/module modules (+ motherboards & CPUs). Without collecting and revealing years data from real use, conversation devolves into opinion and conjecture.

Finally, not all use-cases can benefit from ECC (ie Angry Birds) however there are some obvious/nonobvious ones that can (ie router non-ECC DNS bitsquatting or processing bank transactions).
Yes, and the "bleed" in "heartbleed" comes from the fact that data was being leaked (bleeding out).
> Why do so many pieces of FOSS software—especially in their Windows or macOS distributions—have clickwrap that makes me accept the GPL to install them? Are they just misinformed?

Misinformed, or just using installer tools that have a slot for an EULA, so they just stick whatever license applies to the software even if it is expressly not intended to be a use license in without thought.
You could also ask what happend in Nov 2011 that stopped the exponential increase
"(Where did they get the ice?)"

That is a fantastic question ...

Many different cities around the world have an "icehouse" street - the origin of the name being obvious. However, I know of an "icehouse" street in Hong Kong and I always wonder "when the icehouse was here, and this street was named for it, where in the world were they getting ice?"

I know you can pack ice in sawdust and straw, etc., and keep it for the summer, but Hong Kong is a very, very long journey from anywhere that freezes in the winter ... where were they bringing ice from ?
Yes, at the margins, EVERYTHING a President does will hurt people, cost lives, etc. One can only hope that, on balance, their decisions are beneficial rather than negative. In that sense, you can look for (and find!) outrage or great success in any person with such a weighty job.

For that reason, I don't disagree that there's a lot wrong at the local level, and in many ways any action you could personally take would be better taken at such a level where you can create real impact.

That said, I'm not sure it's at all melodramatic when you consider the tone that the "leader of the free world" sets in terms of what's socially acceptable, how to treat others, and so on. And I don't mean in the sense of "oh, anti-Semitic attacks are up 13.5%!" -- there is SO much that can be fudged in compiling this kind of data. I mean more in the sense of "suddenly it's acceptable to be an unrepentant outright liar every hour of the day, and people will not just look past it, but literally disbelieve their own ears."
Margin trading isn't new to any brokerage.
> A simulated heart does not pump real blood.

Well, now, a simulated heartbeat implemented in a pacemaker and connected to a pump does cause real blood to be pumped.

A real brain adds real numbers, and so does a computer brain. A real brain composes real words, creates real emails, issues payments, requests shipments. Those are not less real than the words, emails, procedures, payments, and shipment requests that computers make today.
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It really depends on the industry.

* Just a few months ago, I was able to buy something at Best Buy for only 10% more (~$30) than it would have cost to order from Amazon.

* On the other hand, I purchased a part for my clothes drier at 400% markup because I needed the part right away.

* I bought a personal hygiene item on Overstock because it was 260% of the cost at Macy's.

* We just started buying shampoo from Amazon because it's far cheaper (33%) than from Walgreens.

* My wife buys all of our socks, underwear, and most of my children's clothes online for ~50% of the in-store price.
I really don't want to get into it, but it involved a beautiful Russian agent driving a BMW X5, baking implements and cup cakes. That's how it started.

Not the first time I've been approached by the Russians and to be clear I have nothing against them either, but if and when they do it again, please don't steal my paper towels or abuse my washing machine.

Right so reading that you probably think it is so fantastical that it can't possibly be true, or that it is so bizarre what I wrote that it makes no sense and I'm nuts. But there are people out there who know what happened and the truth is even more strange than I can share here.

Well I would agree with you on the weirdness, it was fantastical and it was bizarre, but it isn't the first time I've been approached by them or probably the last. The first time was in the early 90's just after releasing my DES hack thing. It just got weirder from there.

Honestly quite like the attempts in some ways, it's flattering, and she really was talented as were her friends. Cute too.

So to them, please go ahead and try again but next time, leave the Costa Rica thing out, or at least make it somewhere a little more temperate.

I really have no problem working for the intelligence agencies as long as it is for a good reason.

Just be honest.
I've spent the last two weeks looking at Memtest86+ trying to figure out if either one of my memory modules is damaged, or if it is the motherboard. These tests take a long time, and yield different results from day to day.

I've decided to never ever again buy non-ECC memory, at least not on 24/7 servers as well as on workstations.

In a gaming machine / visual typewriter? Sure, non-ECC memory is ok.