skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"For example, last year the United States installed ~10 GW of utility scale PV"

So if a nuclear plant has 92% capacity factor, and a solar plant has 27%, that means a 5 GW nuclear plant would require about 17 GW of solar to replace it. In other words, there was less than 2/3 of a nuke's capacity of solar installations last year. Total. For the entire country.
You can't reliably tell the difference between human and other omnivore feces, and there are always going to be coyotes pooping wherever they please.

Gotta accept a bit of poop in your life.
Do the majority of the generations I mentioned come from ghettos? I'm not arguing against the efficacy of the police or whether or not we need them. I'm describing a mindset prevalent among a large number of people. I'm aware exceptions exist.
Because American society has been sorting itself into camps of radically different worldviews over the last several decades, as is easily observed in the decline of Congressional bipartisanship. American Nations by Colin woodard is the best history book I've read on the origins of these competing worldviews. Email me at gmail if you want links to unpublished and rather turgid but substantively fascinating research on the topic by a former intel analyst (not me).
Demand for water isn't growing at nearly the rate of demand for bits. If communities expected their regulated water utilities to deliver twice as much water every 18-36 months, they'd be in for some tough times.
Lots of Torontonians are ESL.
That 97% number is bogus. It is computed by assuming that all the costs of the network are borne by video service, and that the broadband service is essentially pure profit. Look at carriers' actual audited financial statements: https://www.verizon.com/about/sites/default/files/annual/ver.... Verizon's wireline division had an operating profit margin of 5.8% in 2015, 2.7% in 2014, and 0.9% in 2013 (see page 24).
They haven't been perfectly stable, though. We've seen since 2005 a few cases of oil and gas prices surging upwards as part of the Russia-Ukraine dispute (in 2005, 80% of all gas from Russia to the EU went through Ukraine).
Thanks for the reply. I didn't know that Backblaze was bootstrapped and I really do respect that.

But this has been "on the list" for about a year. For an object storage offering, crashing the tab whenever someone opens a large bucket is not something to brush off. I was initially sympathetic, but since B2 also does not have an API call that will allow me to update my filenames (either 'rename' or 'copy to new name') to
comply with the "virtual folders" feature, which either didn't exist when I wrote my script or which I overlooked, I'm stuck.

I asked support to make a bigger push to get some simple pagination added and they said they'll register the feature request. I emphasized that this isn't just a convenience feature, but that it actually makes the tab too slow to use and/or crashes it (don't remember which right now to be honest), but it didn't matter. I asked support to make a one-time exception and find someone who could run a find and replace on the object filenames to comply with the new name structure and they declined to do so. The only option is to pay to download the incorrectly-named files and reupload under new names, which would cost a lot of money in download fees, not to mention a lot of clock time and bandwidth.

Of course, this isn't really intractable. To avoid extra charges from Backblaze, I could just upload the files again since I still have a local copy (for now), but that would also take a lot of time and bandwidth. I could write a client-side script that would stop the B2 interface's broken behavior, and that would make the bucket semi-browseable/usable via the web. But I just don't feel a need to do all that when I could use other solutions that are better about this kind of thing.

B2 left beta a while ago iirc.
The article is good first step, the second step would be to pick up an introduction to philosophy of mind book and realize the enormous number of issues one has to resolve, and methods needs discovering before getting close to answering such questions as whether AGI is possible.
Sure. Question is: how many other discoveries await today such that we, collectively, as a species, already have all the puzzle pieces, but haven't yet put them together? An AI as smart as your average grad student, but which somehow could retain in mind at the same time all of our accumulated scientific knowledge, might be able to quickly draw all sorts of seemingly brilliant conclusions. Now imagine its reasoning process works 6 to 7 orders of magnitude faster than ours, even if not qualitatively different in its logic or biases.

Dunno, I don't really believe we are that close to building that sort of AI, but it doesn't seem fundamentally impossible, and it does seem like it could do things that to us would look as "more intelligent" than us. It might in the end be better at creating scientific knowledge in the way current computers are better than us at solving arithmetic: faster and capable of holding more in memory, rather than following any qualitatively different process. But even that would be enough.
> Why would Bitmain shut down their customers' hardware?

I'm not them, so I don't know.

That sort of mechanism doesn't build itself, though, so I have to imagine they have at least one scenario in mind...

Also, reason #547 I don't take Bitcoin seriously. One vendor gets popular, and 70% of your infra depends on a watchdog not malfunctioning. That is not a sign of a stable ecosystem.
I'm not sure what's worse about this:

1. The fact that it exists

2. The fact that they're using "something" bleed as the name (creativity, please)

3. That whoever created this page recommends the user alter the miner to point to some other, user-controlled HTTP server, effectively MITMing anyone who sees this page.

Shame.
Why can't they use outhouses? They're just holes in the ground (very little maintenance, no requirement for plumbing) and far better than shitting out in the open or in a potable water source.
I don't see Apple becoming as successful as it did if it hadn't had Jobs at the helm, so we would in all likelihood just have Windows now.
I would argue that lawful interception is a feature, not a problem.

In those cases it is a problem with government insight, the actual problem is the government itself, and there are more pressing problems to deal with, rather than worrying about the money transfer systems.
You're quite leading onto an important point with this - businesses require wage labour, capitalism does on a large scale - in order to make sure that there is a large number of people who are able to buy products. Periods of increasing automation means that there are fewer people employed in the old jobs, so they have to be repurposed, or learn new skills. Too much of this is bad for property owners, so there is also a long-term incentive to keep automation growth at a certain level.

But that doesn't mean that people are thrown under the bus - that's a view without nuance. Governments recognise that business can only work when there is a certain degree of freedom to the people (a "double freedom" as Marx put it), and this is done mostly or even wholly for the purpose of ensuring this constant flow of capital. As such, the nuanced view is that while it is capital versus "the people" (wage labourers), to protect the status of capital, "the people" must be afforded certain freedoms, or things break down.
Bitmain is not only the producer of those mining ASICs, it also controls a huge share of the mining power itself.

If it really can kill a large fraction of the remaining hash power it is quite likely they would control over 50% themselves.

That is scary! Especially as they are known to act maliciously in other situations and are opposing the remaining part of the community in the Segwit vs Bitcoin Unlimited debate.
Looks like they also took down auth.minerlink.com ... at least it doesn't resolve to anything for me.
Oh I know a lot of people who think that way. Try reading FreeRepublic.com regularly if you want to experience a social conservative echo chamber. Not responsible for any gastric disorders that may ensue.
Not really, because the risk of such a fine is ridiculously low. From reading up on the incident, it seems like it was more a matter of a software update rather than specifically the use of legacy code that caused the incident. UBS was fined because the outages were unacceptable to consumers and regulators and because "the potential for problems had been raised in an internal audit two years before the incident took place in 2012"[0] and nothing was done.

One could argue that legacy code makes that more likely because of unseen factors that predate the people actively working on it. It's hard to miss a landmine, after all, if you don't have any clue that it's there. But while a rewrite might eliminate that specific risk, it does so by inviting a lot of new ones to replace it. In some ways, the risks are probably greater as you need to figure out possibly decades of business logic and then re-implement everything. From a business decision perspective, the existence of legacy code on its own is an insufficient argument on its own. After all, the problems inherent in legacy code will eventually surface yet again in another 10-15 years anyhow. The better solution in most cases would be to identify specific problems and determine what can be done to hedge against them.

0. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/20/royal-bank-...
I've been thinking along these lines, some other features I'd like:

- ability to have certain sites run site-specific extra processing: i.e. youtube-dl youtube links

- ability to have a list of sites to be archived periodically instead of once only. And the option to be notified when a site updates. even if it were run as a batch job

- ability to ingest a PDF or ebook, identify all the URLs, snapshot all the URLS, present them as a list that links to the original, cached version, the page location

- would also be nice if the data could be stored in a human readable structure in a normal filesystem, so your ability to use the data isn't dependent on your ability to run the tool.

Overall I think it is an interesting project but the commercial potential is limited.

EDIT: maybe the document processing and periodic check thing would make more sense as a higher level tool that depended on the bookmarking tool -- and the extra processing also might make more sense as a plugin type architecture.
You are looking at it the wrong direction.

This is a model where average residential person is paying UPS to deliver all packages they ask for. But UPS has decided that jet.com must pay extra or their packages will be arbitrarily delayed vs amazon because UPS has invested in amazon. Then the customer cries foul because they thought they were paying for arbitrary package delivery.

The government tried to say packages should be treated equally by treating the package delivery as the USPS, but UPS has paid off the party members to ensure they can continue to double dip.

Also remember it isn't that a given company isn't paying for "priority" it is that they're going to be actively underprioritized unless they pay.
This comes into play in the event of a contentious hard fork. Since the miners send their MAC, the parent can look up the customer from sales records. If that customer is against the parent's position in the hard fork, they turn off their machines.

The "enemy" fork loses massive hash power at a critical moment.
Like many other republican policies it's going to hurt the poor more than others. I would probably be fine paying extra to access "all of internet" but for a low income person it's going to be devastating. They will lose access to many useful resources due to this policy.
This is a bit like an inverse magic stone argument ("This stone repels tigers — How do I know it works? — I'm not seeing any tigers around here, do you?").
That's exactly what I thought - I worked on index construction for MG back in 1994. (Note, although my name is Tim Bell, I'm not Timothy C. Bell, the coauthor of "Managing Gigabytes".)
As usual, this is a strong lesson for those who haven't considered capability-safe designs. A big pile of C carrying many libc calls is pretty hard to audit!
The system I propose would be for sure space-consuming. Removing the ads and other unneeded contents would probably help to shrink down the page size though. This is the price to pay to keep the bookmarked content available in the long-term, and I'm ready to pay this "price".

Assuming 1 bookmark per day during 10 years, this will sum up around 8 Go. Storage is cheep enough nowadays so I can support these 8 Go over 10 years. This will probably not be mobile-friendly, but I'm almost never consulting bookmarks from my phone anyway.

Your project seems interesting, thanks for sharing! This may be especially useful to see how you implemented the readability part.
In general there's a hatred or disdain for anyone that does not belong in the majority of a group. Over the last centuries, the majority has always tried to destroy anyone that's different. This century is no different than the last four in that regard.

In psychology we call these in-groups and out-groups. In-groups often have this behavior regardless of country, religion or age.

I don't know how to correct this.
> you'll still help the police do their job when it makes sense to do so.

I bet a black or hispanic man would have a completely different perspective. Hopefully, one will comment.
In practice? No, of course not. Representational democracies are all flawed more or less depending on the country. I'm just not convinced direct democracy is the solution.

Take the TPP for example. Is it a good idea? Is it bad? I haven't read it, and even if I did, I probably wouldn't know either way. Even if I could vote on it directly, I'd have to trust someone to explain it to me. And how would I know which explanation to trust? It seems that we're back to square one.
Yes and no; the majority of young people living on their own in large cities at this point are living in half-gentrified previously-class-ghetto areas, still home to many social-housing buildings, and still with high crime rates. Because these are the "affordable" places to live in a city.

I don't know what percentage of the generations you mention qualify as "young people living on their own in large cities", but I think it's a fair amount. Enough to skew the results against a supermajority having your described viewpoint.
The second and third sentences are reasonable; yes, we should all try to step out of our comfort zones every now and then. But I vehemently disagree with the first sentence. I have no scientific studies or similar sources to back up my views, but I've read several articles that very accurately describe the way I feel about this topic. For introverts (and I count myself here) social interaction is for the most part an energy drain, while for extroverts it's an energy source. There's people that cannot stand the idea of staying home on a Friday night and would actually feel down if they did. They crave social interaction, loud places, being around people even if they don't know them. And there's other people who cannot stand the idea of going to a club and party until [whatever time] in the morning. Loud places, crowded places, forced conversations, just suck away our energy, they don't make us "feel alive" or anything of that sort. So we stay home and read books, or attend small social gatherings with our close friends.

To summarize: in general, extroverts get energy from social interaction, and introverts lose energy in them.
"Nuclear won't win, because it's expensive and doesn't scale well."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_power_stations

I see several nuclear plants on that list, but not one solar or wind plant.

I think perhaps claims about the latter being "less expensive" and "scaling well" should wait until they've actually been economically operated at scale.
When the difficulty is adjusted, the next difficulty adjustment is set to happen after the number of blocks the current hash rate will complete in two weeks. If the hash rate drops, it will take more than two weeks to adjust again.
Because there's the massive potential for some of the data collected in these photos to reveal things about people they don't publicly share with friends, family or companies. The customer thought they were just buying something to get some advice on what shirt to pair with their pants. Instead, they've unwittingly exposed themselves to Amazon. If this is Amazon's intent -- and I suspect it is -- they should just be up-front about it. If it is, I'm sure it's buried somewhere in thier TOS. Make it opt-in.
NSA agrees with you, for one.
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Google had done extensive studies[1]. There is roughly 3% chance of error in RAM per DIMM per year. That doesn't justify buying ECC if you have just one personal computer to worry about. However if you are in data center with 100K machines each with 8 DIMM, you are looking at about 6K machines experiencing RAM errors each day. Now if data is being replicated then these errors can propogate corrupted data in unpredictable unexplainable way even when there are no bugs in your code! For example, you might encounter your logs containing bad line items which gets aggregated in to report showing bizarre numbers because 0x1 turned in to 0x10000001. You can imagine that debugging this happening every day would be huge nightmare and developers would end up eventually inserting lot of asserts for data consistency all over the places. So ECC becomes important if you have distributed large scale system.

1: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf
If you are an affected miner, then you have a direct financial cost. This is also a motiviation for other miners to exploit this, as they can take advantage of the decreased difficulty to mine more blocks themselves.

It is also a network security concern. Bitcoin's 50% security definition is already pretty weak compared to most crypto security definitions. If you have a seperate attack that can take out 70% of the network, then you only need to have power equal to that of 30% of the network to launch a double spend attack.

By itself this might not be enough to make an attack feasible, but if the network is vulnerable to enough of these attacks at the same time, they would compound and a succesfully double spend becomes possible.
bullish?
These announcements always remind me of this.

https://m.signalvnoise.com/press-release-basecamp-valuation-...
it was indeed Craig
If you can shut down up to 70% of the mining power, it would make mounting a 51% attack incredibly easy. It would also mean whoever controls the remaining mining power is in for a treat with block rewards for a while.
Standard inbound firewall rules will not protect against this because the Antminer makes outbound connections.

What kind of idiot doesn't have outbound firewall rules, particularly on their production mining network?
The phrase is "No dice"
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A nice, clear explanation of the kind of thing that trips up most users of FP.

IEEE 754 contains a plethora of corner cases but most normal humans never encounter them. There's enough hazard in the "simple" stuff.
ISP's are not a free market in most rural areas. They were subsidized by taxpayers and given sweet non-compete contracts in return for Lobby money.
These cells only work together because there are other multicelullar organism where the cells work together. What I am saying that everybody working together is impossible. Ditto for groups of humans.

The point is, I believe superintelligence will break into factions and most of its energy will be spent for these factions fighting each other, ignoring any common goal of increasing self-improvement.

So I don't see so called "singularity" as a possibility - maybe at most as another, faster type of evolution, which will ignore humans due to its own self-centeredness and humans will not comprehend it. But just as our culture depends on nature, this superintelligence will probably depend on us (human culture) to sustain its internal struggles.
I reproduced this by bit-squatting cloudfront.net after reading about it. So many memory errors!

http://dinaburg.org/bitsquatting.html

Loved the variety as well. Sometimes though requests came to me the Host header was correct!
How would you build the Pyramids and the London Underground?
So I may sell myself as an "Engineer" to a company, but not the government? What if I'm asked my occupation during jury duty? Do I have to say, "code monkey" instead of "Software Engineer"? Perhaps "Meat Popsicle"
i don't think they are necessarily cheap. i buy from them because they are convenient and have everything. I only want one online shopping identity and even if toothpaste is more expensive there, i go ahead and get it over heading to the store many times.
> I don't get this association between ZFS and ECC.

Because ZFS was the ONLY file system that would actually catch some memory failures even if you didn't have ECC. So, ZFS got a reputation for being snotty when in reality the hardware it was running on was broken.
The hardware checks in with central bitmain servers to see if the hardware is "legitimate". The bitmain servers have to explicitly return false to disable the machines, which is really important because it means that the servers just being disabled (via a DDoS for example) will not shut down anyones systems.

That's why redirecting the traffic from "auth.minerlink.com" to point at "127.0.0.1" is an effective way to bypass the issue. The server (localhost) isn't responding with false and thus the system stays up and running.

The idea that all machines would be shutdown globally seems a bit excessive. While possible it would require Bitmain to lose control of their domain globally, and I imagine an issue like that would get resolved fairly quickly.

That being said it is a bit stupid of bitmain to be doing this, especially if they aren't even doing it over SSL.
I think I'm able to view all other gists.

If I open the Gist on https://gist.github.com/ then go to the original gist at 'kobble-git/channel-groups.json' I can navigate to all the forks and see data for other users.
> you'd have to bypass the OS TCP stack and build your own that mimics another

So, the Snabb Switch sort of thing?

I'm guessing that active layer-4-or-above proxies would also ruin your fingerprinting ability (so people behind corporate firewalls would be un-fingerprint-able.)

And, possibly, API clients running on VM instances in clouds that use software-defined networking, might "look like" the SDN infrastructure, rather than like their VM.
A majority of conference attendees have expenses paid by their employers. If not in full, then at least subsidized.
"Do what I mean" is correct in that it reduces super-human AI to the same category of other human technologies: as good or as bad as whatever we choose to do with them. "Coherent extrapolated volition" might be preferable, but if we could get to the first, we could then ask for the second.
Victorian English drank that shit

https://www.google.com/amp/pictorial.jezebel.com/some-fun-na...
The barrier to entry is much much lower if existing infrastructure can be reused in a self-driving context.
What are you doing where you're actually checking checksums periodically and detcting when things get worse? That seems like a lot of work to set up.
It might open a window allowing a large intact miner to double spend.

If bitmain (or an attacker) took down 70% of the mining power but one miner either didn't use any bitmain hardware or was otherwise protected from the shutdown they would very likely have over 50% of the remaining hashrate. This could give them control over the blockchain until other miners got back online and their share of the overall hashrate dropped below 50% again, worse yet a difficulty correction won't fix things if other miners are slow to recover.