skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>if someone can gather enough private keys together for a specific snapshot in time

IIRC from the CASPER blog posts, the solution is simply to not let the validators reverse history beyond a certain point. I think that was about 2000 blocks or so. After that point a client won't accept an alternate history.

>An attacker who is able to gain enough stake to commit an attack for a short period of time can commit that attack forever.

Not necessarily. Again, CASPER, an attacker who violates some of the consensus rules will loose their entire stake over time (heavy penalties), so behaving is the most profitable option. To misbehave means to burn a lot of cash.

Since CASPER is based on betting, an attacker may be able to temporarily censor a transaction but they can't censor another validator who is honest without loosing money in the process (they have to bet against and burn the money)

>a lot of good reason to believe that it will never be viable in the fully decentralized, fully trustless environment that bitcoin thrives in.

Honestly, it doesn't need to be. It just needs to be decentralized enough, trustless enough while also providing better value than bitcoin.
> Europe decided to do austerity instead of Keynesian stimulus.

You are somehow assuming there was a choice to begin with.

There wasn't. If you don't have the cash, you don't get to spend it.

Do note that all EU nations that were subjected to a bailout agreement were forced to do so because they lost access to international money markets and were essentially cut off from receiving any loan. We're talking about half a dozen states that were borrowing themselves at levels close or beyond 100% GDP, and the international money markets raising available interest rates beyond 7% for 5y loans in response.

How do you get a loan when you're over 100% in debtand you're running a keynesian double-digit deficit?

You don't. You pick up your phone to call the IMF for help, and start to cut spending to avoid bankruptcy.
Anecdotal data point: 3rd generation computer programmer here, and I hope that one of my sons also takes up the mantle, although I haven't seen any evidence that it's likely yet. I took it up because I had computers to play with at home, and my dad had Logo (turtle graphics) on one of them.
It's hard but possible. China manages to detect VPN's with their great firewall and cut a VPN connection to outside countries fairly fast.

You basically need to look at traffic patterns. A TLS handshake (HTTPS) is very distinct from a typical VPN handshake (except maybe OpenVPN since it uses TLS)

Or they can just block/throttle IP's of VPN providers. Not a lot of people can set up their own VPN server.
I'm really interested in seeing the evolution of Kotlin with regard to its use in building DSLs.

I saw a talk by Christina Lee and Huyen Tue Dao that builds one on the type system (lambda extension fimctions) that feels very intuitive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmwjrVawHqA
Stop the panic, the internet existed for years without those regulations that he wants to cancel which were applied only in 2015. I prefer the government will not touch it, it will just ruin everything, if you are worried about US becoming China you have to remember that it is government regulation in China which cause the problems, not the ISPs.
ISP is a pretty competitive landscape and I am sure if one of them block something there will be other ones which will be happy to offer unlimited services, the way it was until 2015 without those regulations. If something really bad actually happen I will want to see the government interfere but to call the government to interfere with no reason and no real problem is just going to do more harm than good.
Yes because we the internet mob need to judge the lives of others.

That is so healthy.

I don't believe you can both have an intellectually honest debate and judge at the same time.

I hope they don't share the actual quotes because that wasn't the argument. The argument was open debate is not possible anymore, because we get actively judged and harassed for opinions because the flesh mob (you, me, everyone) only allows for socially accepted top 40 opinions.

Freedom also means freedom from each other. Not just the state.

If you said something bad about a person you don't personally know in the last month, then my judgement on you (yeah hypocrisy) is that you are a horrible person and the world is better with you not consuming oxygen.
The problem is you can't tell bittorrent or any other protocol from SSL if its encrypted. The only way to stop it is slow all random ip to random ip connections, basically if one of the endpoints isn't a major, known company its in the slow lane. Count on AWS creating a few Canadian regions.
So attack the real problem (more options aka free market) instead of asking for more rules.
Typical dialog on the internet:

xxx: Apple devices specific function Z won't work properly because of this and that.

yyy: so you say Apple device "can't work", you are "one of the millions"
So maybe you found the actual problem. And forcing anyone providing network services to be common carrier just makes it less likely for competition to happen.
Myth. There's much more estrogen in dairy. Milk is packed with hormones. It comes from a female cow after giving birth for heavens sake.
Not surprising, actually. Gold is very easy to keep locked away because it's a physical object. But that also means it's very difficult to move around. As with all things, there are tradeoffs and one must decide what is best for each. Even if the "15x" figure is true, there might still be a use case for Bitcoin.
Some people could get faster service than they do today, in the sense that a given flow (e.g. VoIP data) might go from having equal QoS priority to having higher QoS priority, meaning that under congestion, their flow might go from being slow (before) to being the-speed-they're-paying-for. Of course, that would come at the expense of other flows (e.g. BitTorrent) having lower relative QoS priority, making them slower under congestion. It's zero-sum.

This type of flow management is already how VoLTE flows are prioritized on LTE (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Multimedia_Subsystem); I wouldn't be surprised to see land-line ISPs implement it.
Not the entire chain or even the entire omni chain, they only need to send coins to the current endpoints holding tether.
It's structurally similar to getting an investor for other software companies: you find someone in the business of publishing and convince them that giving you money is a good idea.

Generally, this will be by pointing out "I was introduced to you by someone you trust, which is why you've read this far. I clearly have the capabilities required to ship a game which will sell a lot of copies. I have lined up a team which has done this before, professionally. We have produced some early artifacts which suggest that we're capable of executing on this in a more-or-less professional fashion. Give us a small amount of money now, plus more if we hit some milestones, in return for the lion's share of our profits from this venture."

The true answer for "How do you get a publisher given that you're an enthusiast who hasn't worked in a professional capacity in the gaming field before?" is "You don't, unless you already have a hit on your hands."
Only available on Netflix US and Canada as well as a handful theater screenings. I've said it before but it almost seems as if those documentaries try to limit their audience. I can't count the number of times I stumbled upon interesting small, niche and independent documentaries only to find out that they are only screening in a few limited locations worldwide without any purchasing option in sight.
Tethered my ATT acct for now. Prob go with my local microwave provider here in Tucson. Why arg for 'NN' when the real beef when you get down to it is the lack of competition?
Even having a publisher doesn't address the underlying issue: There are simply too many 'indie' games. Relatively simple high-concept low-fidelity retro games don't have a huge audience and that audience is getting swamped with a torrent of games of varying quality.
This hypothesis has achieved both maximum fun and maximum anxiety.
The government does not understand that, the more they restrict, people will find alternatives. Privacy of movies/songs is still on in-spite of all laws
Yes. There's a link in the site footer to the artist, Marcus, though I did animate them myself.
It's fine to do marathons if you're sure you're going to win, or if you don't care if you win.
Should be on sale right now for say 4.99€ in the current black friday sale to get some exposure
Want to try Warp? We just enabled the beta for you
not immediately, they could pass extra laws though (and probably will if they get momentum)
Many (or most?) bundled iOS apps can be removed https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT204221
Just like you don't buy intel anymore because of the management engine right ;)
That sucks. Email me? jon@calhoun.io

I'll happily work with you to figure out the issue, even if it means giving you a link to download some videos in the meantime.
A ToS is a contract between a service provider and a user, Google doesn't need to agree to that contract to use its own services, I don't even know if it makes any sense legally. Of course ethically one would like the same rules to apply to everyone.
This is just one step to internet becoming a utility. If the companies take it too far and mess with sites people like, the next set of politicians will make it a utility like water or power.
So were those false positives in fact real signal? It wouldn’t be the first time that ‘noise’ turned out to be signal.
I'm on a keto diet, lost 2 kg over 2 months but was already quite fit. Didn't feel much different. I truly believe that all the "keto changed everything about my life!" hype is basically just overweight people loosing weigh and misinterpreting all the benefits of no-longer being overweight as being related to the carbohydrates.
Don't feel hungry all the time? Working out regularly does that too you no-matter what you eat. Easier to concentrate? Funny enough, most research on cutting carbohydrates out your diet indicates that it reduces your mental fitness, but again, if you were overweight and you're losing weight, that's going to have that effect. Easier to fall asleep and wake up? Well again, just working out and not being overweight will help you here.

Not saying that keto doesn't work or doesn't have unique aspect to it, but at the end of the day, to me it seems that 80% of it is just calories in, calories out. Then 20% about making it easier to actually stick to that. And the remaining 98% is all hype.
No, that's because you have the artificial requirement to eat meat and stuff, which usually has additives. I've been in a whole food plant based diet and it's super cheap to buy all of the fruits, vegetables, grains, etc in bulk.
I'm actually in the process of founding a small farm :-)

I tend to conflate the food industry with the food mafia though, and I'm highly skeptical of the long term prospects of civilization if we pursue our growth-based economy.

Resources on earth are finite, efficiency can't rise past (or approach) 100%, and the amount of entropy we generate today is already too high for the rest of the biosphere, leading to its collapse.
Easy. Quote "It directs sound to specific places in a room, creating immersive 3-D audio." end quote.

I say a) this is exactly what an audiophile would want, and b) HomePod very likely can't do it (simply because it is a physically small device).

Also please notice I didn't dispute that HomePod won't "sound nice". I dispute a) "high quality" and b) "beamforming" capabilities directly mentioned in the linked article.

And as a reminder, another direct quote from the article: "The engineers wanted a product that would pass muster with audiophiles."
I used to support net neutrality. Then I did my homework on the issue and realized so many of the arguments in favor of net neutrality rely on fear-mongering and a false history of the internet.
> All in all just getting the business prepared ended up costing me about 550 more dollars than I was expecting. That's one month out of the 4 taken out.

Either I'm misunderstanding this statement or he really calculated $550 for a whole month. How or in which country is that enough to survive a whole month?
i guess you could quantify that as the real problem if you like, it's a much harder problem however.

the incumbents are currently successfully shutting out big competition from putting in their own infrastructure (google has been successfully blocked from areas by lawsuits, along with municipal ISPs).

edit: and even if competition was unfettered, it would still take many years and a lot of investment to provide real alternatives

giving a shit about what the "right" way to deal with these assholes is probably not that productive.
Ports are not enough, they can inspect packets. I believe most VPN protocols can be detected, although you could probably adapt one (possibly OpenVPN, which can already use TLS) to look like a regular HTTPS or IMAPS connection (assuming they don't analyze the patterns of traffic).

There's still the possibility of blocking commercial VPN services by their IP addresses, making it harder for anyone who can't host one themselves on a VPS or something.
Who is Ajit Pai, the “Trump soldier” remaking America’s internet?
(Not the original poster) I suppose it's cold storage, but on something which is more permanent than paper. Of course it's a bit pointless since even the cheapest most acidic paper should last for 20 years or so which is long enough for storing bitcoins for the vast majority of funds.
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pretty much any push notification is an instant uninstall for me
>Reversible and traceable transactions are a feature of real money, not a bug.

That depends. Having a paper trail of your money in local tax office sometimes means you would be shot in a head and buried in a nearest forest.

When armed insurgency happens (and yes, they do happen) all you see in the news is "Country A" occupied parts of "Country B", but on the ground you would have armed people going full-DAESH on local tax offices to see whom to demand ransom from and that would be law-obeying people with paper trail for their earnings.
CORRECT. Ditto for cars. Lock me out of the HSCAN bus and I guarantee I wont buy it. So far, I can hack my way in, and similarly I can disable ME, but yes, I will _happily_ pay extra to wadge the war for general purpose computing.
He is basically asking for more surveillance and less anonymity ...
It's not like NN would make them have more competition, either. Which, if they are greedy bastards that make anything for a profit, would make instead of charging to access some websites, get that same money from raising prices to everyone, easy as pie.
Sorry, which arguments are fear-mongering?
Even OpenVPN seems to be detectable, there's a provider that suggests running it over an extra TLS tunnel[1]. The overhead must be terrible, though.

[1] https://airvpn.org/ssl/
Especially if it's just a single dev working on it. You can just sell it without making a company.
AFAICT it's not about making bittorrent illegal, but to make it legal for ISPs to block any specific protocol.

I'm assuming you're thinking in terms of designer drug legislation? Comcast in this case would simply need to match the new protocols to block, no new legislation needed.
I have had tinnitus and it was pretty terrible the first year but I got used to it almost completely. Then I woke up one day with a new thing called diplacusis where I hear a tone on top of sound for certain frequencies. So my wife says hi how are you and I hear that plus a tone for each word. It sounds kind of like the radios in the xwings in Star Wars. I’ve been adjusting for 3 months but it’s very hard to habituate. Fortunately it has softened in that time. But it seems to be extremely rare associated with a sudden dip in one of the hearing ranges where the rest of hearing is mostly normal. Oh well...
Have you looked at cython? Might have been a great compromise.
I saw similar gains in my code eventually, but the process to get there was very smooth. At first I could just use original python code and covert it piece by piece (of course sometimes you need to refactor). You can drop GIL too.
I don't understand how people still think that just creating and publishing a game is enough to sell enough copies or make a living from it.

Maybe a few years back, that barely worked, but even then, if you didn't have an audience, your game never sold as much.
Hey, is there any plan to add FP programming (functors, mondads, free monad, etc.) to Rust as part of the language or some officialy supported library?

Also - any plans for Streaming?

I'm a big Scala user and fan (Haskell of course too) and would like to try out Rust but I really don't see myself going back to structural/object oriented-programming
You’re correct. Humans seem to be hard wired to make predictions based on extrapolating recent experience.
Vary few (especially not journalists) can use logic and intelligence to overcome this bias.
Studying a little history, applying some simple logic, tells me that - as China’s economy approaches half of USD $57k GDP per capita (real nominal not fantasy PPP) eg Portugal $20k, their growth will slow dramatically - now $8k below Brazil so they can still grow fast, beacuase of easy gains from Catch Up ie leveraging R&D paid for by rich countries. Central planning does have advantage of better infrastructure but disadvantage of Less Experimentation Less Trial & Error, this will be more important for driving Innovation which will be required to sustain growth, once they are past the easy wins of catch-up.
4. 0-day in the kernel's USB code. Your computer crashes. You're not part of stuxnet. You also get a message that tells you how and where to report the bug that was exploited, but the part of your computer that was supposed to log the message died with the rest of the system, so you never see it and the bug never actually gets reported. Your computer continues to crash randomly for the next few days as an infected computer keeps trying to spread.
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The country he mentions is Romania.

Well, bureaucracy is high, but like other said, no need to setup a company in advance. But, he saved anyway way to little money ( I found strange that he is counting in USD, since euro is de facto currency, besides the RON ) to be able to sustain him and an apartment.

Lessons learn: don't quit your job until you have some sale volume.

However, since he's in Romania, he will get a job in no time, there's a chronic shortage of good developers.
If PoW energy use grows 10x year over year, in 9 years by 2026 PoW will burn a billion times more energy than today. More than all countries combined, right? By what year will PoW double global electricity use?
Google et al want the infrastructure to be dumb pipes so they can direct traffic by manipulating search results. Ending NN is bad for them but it is yet to be shown it will be bad for the consumer.

You're your ISP's customer but Google's product.
Yes, a pinch, not enough sugar to turn the sauce into "kids ketchup"
Romania - without paying rent - 550 USD will suffice for 1 month of daily spending. He mentioned that he has a low mortgage which probably splits with his girlfriend and for a 1 bedroom apartment can be as low as 250 USD per month.
750 USD is the average gross monthly income (before taxes ). Usually software developers earn double that.
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This doesn't scale well. If only one person edits the spreadsheet and that person knows how to save copies and make sure there is only one latest version it may work. If you give this to 10 people they will start making copies, saving those with different names ans save the copies on some server or on their own machines and after a while you don't have a single source of truth anymore. And you almost never have logging when many people edit copies of Excel documents.
I’ve seen reddit, but ultimately that means nothing. Posting a comment on a forum (even reddit or hn) is in itself meaningless. It’s oretty much the definitio or apathetic.
>I pay them for Windows and Office, a very simple transaction, right?

No, it's not, and hasn't been for a while. Office added a subscription model a few years back (obviously it's the one they are pushing), and after that stunt that MS pulled with 10 launch you might as well consider it a targeted ad platform.
No design agency will ever agree on liability or do IP research on a project with as tiny budget as this service.

If the client only wants to pay $29 or even $990, that barely covers a meeting and a few sketches.
I'm listening through this book right now on my daily commute and it's possibly the first time I've clung onto every word in an audiobook.
As far as I know, they never sold licenses for the Linux version. It was always in beta. In the forums, people offered to buy licenses--perhaps users of the Linux version bought a Mac or Windows license and told L&L, but I don't remember the Linux version ever being for sale.
The following apps are not included, or are optional during setup and uninstallable afterwards, on my Pixel 2 XL:

1. Google+

2. Google Duo

3. Google Hangouts

4. Google Play Games

5. Google Play Newsstand

6. Google Sheets

7. Google Assistant
> I'm...not even sure how to respond to this historical misunderstanding, other than Wikipedia:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_....

So you didn't actually even read my post. This is what I wrote:

> I don't disagree that communist regimes have killed innumerable people

And then you continue:

> Depending on the particular regime and which groups they designate as the bourgeoisie: Scientists, Farmers, Journalists, Factory Managers, Christians, Jews, Petty Criminals, Tartars, Kurds, Ukrainians, Germans, Poles, Estonians, Kulaks, Teachers(who taught the wrong thing), Capitalists, etc.

This was exactly my point.

> At least with national socialism you have a chance to get out.

Not if you're born the wrong way.

And I'm curious as to why you didn't comment on Christianity, and how you view killing in the name of Christ/God.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_violence#War

Is Christianity then the same as Communism in terms of violence?
VPNs can and will adapt, they're only detectable if they behave a certain way, last article i read a while ago openvpn was generally being detected by the way it did the handshake.

but yeah, the only permanent way to block VPNs is to get rid of encrypted traffic, otherwise they're going to be in a running battle of updating their detection methods and vpn providers obfuscating their protocol
There should really be a more real-world example, the current code (and your alternative version) is just redundant and equivalent to

fn try_option_some() -> Option<u8> {
Some(1)
}
Most jobs I've tried seem to have a higher than the average 1.7-2.7x chance for the same job. Did anyone find examples of jobs which are (far) less likely? They only provide the cashier example themselves.
That’s Shamir secret sharing, not multisig.
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It's tiring how the dialogue is still so ideological. Every single person agrees that there should be 1 or more regulation. We are just determining their precise character. I wish public discussion would become more nuanced and specific to the issue at hand.
First save up for at least a year, or better two. Then go down to half time on your regular job or ask for unpaid leave, in some countries the employer must say yes and then let you back, unless you're starting a competing business.