skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ethereum's main selling point is it lets you issue illegal unregistered securities. Why would a real company want to associate with that?

Also the lead developer is some kid who believes very much in moving fast and breaking things. This philosophy may work for a social network site but not for other people's money.

How many terrible bugs have been discovered in Ethereums short history? Too many. Additionally the size of its blockchain has already passed Bitcoin. It's file size is growing so fast and will pose a serious technical problem.
I agree that it's probably not unethical. But during the past, the human population was actually too low, creating instability and suffering. At some point it may become too high, or may have already become too high. It really depends on where that floating equilibrium is.
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TL;DR Don't tell people your passwords, even if they're "obscured" by a hashing algorithm.
In reality while that would be really easy to crack (measured in minutes as others pointed out).

However, any possible password with a standard printable ASCII character set will typically be found in Rainbow tables up to 10 characters long making expensive cracking unnecessary. [not quite right see edit]

Rainbow tables are just giant tables where the key is the hash and the value is the string that generated it.

However, your example being 14 characters long is a bit long to be in most readily available rainbow tables.

This is why using salts and peppers are incredibly important regardless of what hash you use.

Edit: minor(ish) correction to the previous sentence. Full alphanumeric with punctuation and digits is available readily in smaller password lengths but the 10 character long datasets seem to be mostly only lower case characters and digits.
Northside College Prep in Chicago has Latin (and my nephews actually took it at the K-8 level in public schools as well). If you read the story, you'll find that many of Foster's former students are teaching Latin, and Santa Monica High School (another public school) is given as an example of where his graduates teach. My local public high school also offers Latin (as does the Catholic high school half a mile down the street). There's been a bit of a renaissance of Latin in the schools of late.
"Inequality" is a bizarre concept to apply here -- and it seems it's used to signal social justice virtue: it's unfair that people in more successful economies have time for exercise and recreation, and/or that their cultural norms includes the concept of "healthy lifestyle".
This changes nothing. It was a publicity stunt that solved no actual problems and introduced tons of problems that didn't exist before. Except it didn't even do that because "regulators do not yet allow issuances via blockchain only, so we had to test it in parallel with the conventional issuance process."

It was a no-op.
I am recommending this for my elderly family members with poor eyesight. This could greatly increase their quality of life.
It's pretty common for games to support multiplayer these days. Many popular games are multiplayer only.
Things like this make me fear banner ads mining bitcoins (not that they aren't already).
Parquet is stationary data on-disk. Arrow is focused on in-memory analytics and serializes out to a variety of formats (including Feather and Parquet).
It probably could be provided by a 20% free time project at Google with their worldwide infrastructure, no?
No. There have to be survivors.
I have built systems like that or had jobs where stuff like that was part of it (CI/CD applies to most jobs actually). There is no way I could charge money anything like that. You are in a bubble full of money. 95% of even US businesses will not spend money like that for most projects. That's a small market of only the largest cash-rich businesses if you want those rates.

Some huge portion of businesses are trying to do those things. Most are small or medium sized businesses and they just can't spend that kind of money in a short time frame.

I mean, CI/CD is actually the new standard, so everyone is trying to get there. Same with deploying VMs -- the new standard is to do it automatically. That stuff falls under DevOps, which again, is the standard now for people that know what they are doing, and it can't really be separated from the other aspects of development anyway. There are millions of developers working on better integrating DevOps into their organizations who are not making $200,000 or more per year. That's just not a realistic wage for most areas of the world.

But if you have access to those clients good for you. Just don't pretend everyone can get that.
The tech isn't the hard part
I've been watching this project for over a year. There is quite a bit of work and care put into it.
https://github.com/gpujs/gpu.js/graphs/contributors
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I don't see a spoiled brat. Why is it so hard to believe that Suh wasn't in the wrong?
We've talked about this. Though streams (e.g. Apache beam) are closer to where we think realtime data is going. It would be possible to wire Quilt to something like firebase to get realtime behavior... Happy to brainstorm other solutions: aneesh at quiltdata dot io.
However, I'm not claiming it's production ready, just that it's more than a weekend project.
Lots of paid apps, games and even e-books, I have several cards for Monument Valley.
He seems like he might be a fun person to get tapas with. I don't have a personal problem with him.
Remember "Chuck Norris"...
It correctly identified my refrigerator and bookshelf. Color me impressed.

Things like this make articles like this one seem silly: https://www.madebymany.com/stories/what-if-ai-is-a-failed-dr...
We can't really store that many passwords. It's even just 30^14 = 500 exabytes per byte and MD5 is 16 bytes at a minimum so you need 8000+ exabytes = 8,000,000,000+ Terabytes.

Note: only "In the third quarter of 2016, approximately 144.6 million hard disk drives were shipped worldwide" aka something like all HDD ever produced might fit that much data.

PS: Plus that 30 was low balling for a full search space it's 26 (lower case letters) + 26 (upper case letters) + 10 (numbers) + some number of special characters. So, ~100^14 or ~20,907,515x as large aka 10^17 TB.
That's not "shadowbanning". First, if you "showdead=true", you can see the comments and who wrote them. Second, that sibling comment was flagged off the site by users, not by some insidious shadowbanning apparatus.

The "shadowbanning" regime that Paul Graham ran involved people being quietly banned from the site without being told; they would write comments and the site would do its best to make them believe everyone could see those comments, when in fact nobody could.
It's true that America's higher drug prices ultimately subsidize the world. But this certainly isn't the only thing driving up costs. Administration costs in healthcare are significantly higher in the US than other countries, and heroic end-of-life care is a sort of religion that sucks money down a black hole. Some chronic health issues like obesity are more common in the US. And there's this:

http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-second-origina...
The human element isn't either. Google can offer ads to acquire drivers and riders for free through its various ad channels (mobile, search). They already own the verticals necessary.
>> Yes, because that's what she said. I do my best to take people at their word unless there's a good reason not to.

Except that she had already accepted the money and I would presume the first time she saw the client's ethnicity didn't occur between accepting the booking and the final outburst. A bunch of other, unrelated stuff happened that made her angry. And then she dropped the racist stuff. That's an important distinction for that parent is saying.
> If no one had kids, then we would wipe out the human race, which itself is unethical.

Not everyone agrees with that intuition.

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

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

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

https://www.amazon.com/Every-Cradle-Grave-Rethinking-Suicide...
My favorite quote:

About this method he said, “You don’t need a hydrology course to learn to swim. You don’t point at the water and say, ‘This is water, this is how water works.’ you just throw the babies in.”
Anirudh and team: Excellent product release. Thanks for doing such important work for marginalized people! We need more tech like this and less like that.
Not available in the Australian store. Ah, I forgot my entire country doesn't exist.
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For the launch, its available in USA, Canada, India, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong. And gradually, should be available in more countries.

Anirudh from Seeing AI team
Sure, but "25 machine cluster which would reverse your hash in about 12 minutes -- regardless of your password features." is clearly wrong as GPU's are not that much faster and the article is talking about 25 GPU's.
This all sounds like it was done without duplicating the font itself (aside from installing it, which does make a copy in one of the Library/Fonts folders, but afaik that isn't been considered duplication for copyright purposes). And it could be done easily enough without even making that copy (a symlink would likely do it).
Why Argon2id? Isn't Argon2i what the creators suggest?
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Those are both interesting projects. Quilt has a rather different emphasis, though. The difference from CVMFS is that Quilt is a full set of services around data (build, push, install) whereas CVMFS is just the file system. In the big data community Paruqet, which we use as a virtualization format, has far more traction than CVMFS. Nixos is specialized for software package management so the distinctions between Quilt and git apply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14772036.
also https://github.com/MaiaVictor/WebMonkeys
It's a big deal imo, but a major blow for Bitcoin, because it's nowhere to be seen.

Have you ever purchased a bond? Ever wanted to sell one on the secondary market? Ever heard of the Securities Transfer Agents Medallion Program? You will if you try to trade bonds in the conventional way, which is a huge pain in the ass.

There is a lot of room for improvement by implementing the blockchain.
Yikes. Look institutionalized. The big money is made during the troughs when hand shacks work: 70s, early 90s, early 00s.

At the end of the day, most VC valuations are pulled out of a hat. There's a reason why $1B has become a sexy handle: people ascribed some type of value to this valuation.
You can do that on iOS too -- and discoverability is, as usual, a transient state that you invoke manually. So most people probably leave BT on, but not discoverable, most of the time.
We welcome your contributions to the R interface. If you email me, aneesh at quiltdata dot io, I can add you to our Slach channel where our engineers can support your efforts. Several users have asked about R and if we combine them together I think we have the horsepower to build an R layer for Quilt.
What happens when I buy a bond and then I accidentally lose my private key?
My first experience with the "web" was a friend showing me this "browser" thing a friend was working on at another college. It was like the text link thing (gopher?) that let you read man pages on other college networks with inline images. It was so slow and boring. I thought it was the dumbest thing ever. I went outside to mountain bike in the nice summer weather afterwards.

I didn't imagine it would have much use and was already annoyed by the guys that used FTP to download porn images. They would use terminals in the computer labs to amas collections that you could look at one by one with xv. The browser seemed to speed up the effort of downloading index files, manually typing in filenames, switching to binary mode, then back, etc.
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> > Key stretching functions, such as PBKDF2, Bcrypt or Scrypt, typically use repeated invocations of a cryptographic hash to increase the time required to perform brute force attacks on stored password digests.

This is not false, it is indeed one of the techniques that they use.
At least in my experience getting a cab at the airport is at least 4-10x the cost of a ride sharing company. The cities I travel to frequently have fixed-rate rides out of the airport, and they are heinous.
Redis on MOSIX might be an interesting experiment.
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NO Need to Worry about Adversarial Examples for Autonomous Vehicles
For some background, see https://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.1897.pdf which has some cool visuals of pictures that make neural networks to strange things.

Looks like this group might have solved adversarial examples (or rather, found that they're not a problem in practice after all) for self driving cars!

Yann LeCun seems confident about it: https://mobile.twitter.com/ylecun/status/885384106418294784
> You use the 'salt' as the key in the keyed hash.

I thought the two schemes were conceptually different, leading to different engineering tradeoffs: With salts, you assume the attacker can gain access to it. With keyed-hashing, you simply have a second piece of equally-secret information, and you hope it doesn't get leaked.
There is a lot to be said for not wanting to piss off the people who control the money that flows to you. I am not as certain that people would choose to keep things the way that they are if they also weren't keenly aware (as say, someone might especially be in China) that the State might be monitoring their answers.

It's also very important to remember that most people who manage wealth well, on the other hand, do so in a way that benefits those who do not, and as such retain their responsibilities as money managers because they are one half of a financially symbiotic system of exchange.

There are also a lot of social factors to consider that didn't necessarily (and understandably so) make it into the studies dependent or independent variable sets. The attractiveness of each party needs to be controlled for, as there is a definite bias to give money to those we find attractive. The age of someone is another control variable that needs to be accounted for, as the elderly are generally (and correctly, generally speaking) more adept at managing money, for how else would they have survived so long?

All in all, I think mostly what this tells us is that we are cautiously optimistic about the belief that those who have less in our social hierarchy are capable enough to have more, but that it's important to preserve and honor the way in which wealth flows because it flows in a way that has kept us progressing for millenia.

I would be much more interested in reading about how much wealth they believed should be distributed rather than simply if it should. That would give us more than a binary response from which to extrapolate data.
"difference" would be a better adjective. It would describe it without adding word which can carry unwanted inference.
Yes truth is worth pursuing. It frees the mind from illusion. I rather not have a black box. And this theory is at the very foundation of economics.
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> Because your last minute business traveler who is paying a big chunk of cash doesn't want standby.

So what I'm hearing is that they'd rather be lied to at the airport, than at the time they're buying the ticket.

If you buy a ticket, then there should be no reason for the airline to deny you boarding (excepting safety issues). This is how every other service works.

If I turn up and it turns out so did everyone else who bought a ticket, then the airline should not be bullshitting about overbooking.
>It probably could be provided by a 20% free time project at Google

Now there's a reference I have not heard in a long, long time.

Google doesn't still do that, do they?
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When I watch documentaries about Syria war, or North Korea, I always think I would never give birth to a child under those conditions.
A sibling comment of mine, not of yours. It's [dead], but not [flagged].

Not all dead comments get that way by user flags. Some users' comment histories reveal a point past which there are only stillborns. I'm not sure that referring to shadowbanning here in the past tense is accurate. And "insidious" is your word, not mine. I don't disagree with the practice in general. I do consider it probably counterproductive in this case.
True, Houston is the 4th largest city but it's kind of cheating - it's a very large area with a population density similar to a Northeast suburb. If Houston had Manhattan's population density it would have 43 million people.
I don't think JP Morgan is going to give you the private key to your bond. This is a slightly more decentralized version of holding securities in street name. It's less painful than direct registration, it's publicly auditable, and faster to settle.
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As an employee of a startup, I agree, but it's ultimately their responsibility. My recruiter inflated valuation, which I am still bitter about, but regardless when I signed on I realized that this is just funny money until liquidation.

If a Silicon Valley engineer goes and buys a house, planning on a big payout on their options, then they're a fool.
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The easiest use case I can see is as a way for people to record where things are in a new office building, e.g., the route to the bathroom or supply closet. Then you could share the routes, though the bathroom example might not be one people want to share. Alternatively the office manager could create and share indoor routes.

This would also work well for an airport.
It's not anonymous, so you just prove who you are.
Also motorsyclist! I constantly see them driving in imaginary lanes and randomly going from 45 to 100 and back again, in swarms!
People who whine about some injustice, but when asked to explain, say "I won't waste my time", never come across as convincing to me.

Just an opinion as someone who doesn't care yet about who stole whose lollipop.
What happens when JP Morgan loses my private key?

I mean, I hear you. I 100% get why people are interested. I just don't see why it has to be a blockchain vs a centralized database that DTCC controls access to.
Why not? Transactions will still be manually verified of course, but a private key is a pretty good signal that it was valid.
It looks exactly like AdFly at first glance. Thought I was being directed to a Minecraft Mod.
Call me cynical, but perhaps - just perhaps - this was part of the reason for Benchmark's fallout with Travis. Perhaps they wanted to realize some of the gains in their shares of Uber and knew Kalanick would be (or already had been) opposed to it. Benchmark already made astronomical gains on their shares (at least on paper) and perhaps they were looking for a way to now cash in on some of those returns.
To who? It's a de-centralized database.
I'd think pegging CPU/GPU at 99% would be even more of a turn off than banner ads. Especially on mobile where it'd drain your battery.

Interesting thought though. I wonder if Windows or MacOS had some hidden process that did bitcoin mining at ~5% CPU, how much that would be worth worldwide.
When Java 7 was released in 2011, there was already a 2-year old WebSphere Commerce release supporting Java 6. I don't think you
can pin those years you were on a superceded 5-7 year old stack on IBM.
It appears it's gone now from some quick Googling (the irony). My age is showing.
I attended a day of the conference mentioned out of casual interest because I live nearby and was mildly and pleasantly surprised that nearly all of the attendees are serious activists and definitely getting things done in their cities, especially Seattle.
But this is Silicon Valley, and we have Hacker News, and lo your comment aptly describes the risks involved when working for a startup.

You know this, and I know this, and frankly anyone who is going to sign an offer letter should know this, but they often don't, and people often don't understand predatory loans either.

If you're an SV engineer making six figures I have no sympathy if you don't understand how your options work. You can afford a personal financial advisor.
> this is why we invented web browsers

Amen!
That depends on a few of things:

1. culture
2. surveillance and consequence
3. maintenance.

some cultures are cleaner than others (Japan vs US, or India). if you record activities (remotely stored) and you can impose consequences plus you maintain the fleet properly (routinely and specially when people intentionally or accidentally soil interiors, that will go a long way.

I know I'd want vehicles which get routinely cleaned (BART vs JR subways and trains)
Some excerpts from his first book give a sense of the depth of his (Naoki's) internal experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhPKpte3E78
Databases are notoriously insecure.
a car not having a driver isn't at all the same thing as a car not having an owner. The owner will care about cleanliness to precisely the same extent as its customers do.
For now. https://www.keylength.com/en/compare/

Why risk it when generating an ed25519 or rsa4096 keypair is cheap?
Depends on your idea of ethics. There's no ethical system everyone agrees on. Can we call a natural biological function ethical or unethical?
Stupid question, but what does this particular password hash unlock?
Star Citizen was rebuilt in Amazon Lumberyard in a few days
Spring is as micro as Java gets. Probably not a great example but its the best one I could think of at the time of the comment. Flask is a singular framework that has an ecosystem around it with plugins/extensions.
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There are safeguards in place that must survive the rigors of external auditors.
Most of the time is is just the last factor at work - everyone wants to date the hot guy even if he is only “hot” because everyone wants to date him.
author was so proud of coming up with "genre-bending" he had to use it twice
Catchy headline for left leaning types.
Do you take David Benatar seriously?
Yes, but you have to associate identity with your public key. This is for bonds, not buying drugs.

Just transfer bonds into a new key pair. A costly hassle I am sure. Don't lose your key!
Databases store all the money for basically everyone in the developed world. They seem to be working ok.
But how do you explain the issue of NIMBYism not being as big an impediment in Texas or Nevada, you know, where one might expect those motives to be the same or maybe more prevalent?
Okay, Bill Gates alone is worth more than twice all the bitcoin ever mined. Apple is worth almost 20x that. So, per risk/reward, probably not a great strategy for either company. https://howmuch.net/articles/worlds-money-in-perspective.