skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll be impressed when they can decipher my grandmother's Suetterlin handwriting.
Just because it doesn't fit into your contrarian view on
consensus it doesn't mean it doesn't provide consensus.

Nakamoto consensus solves the Byzantine problem quite well.
The list of transactions doesn't not constantly change? Are you saying there is no consensus as to the value of the first blocks?

I get that it's cool to be contrarian and it makes people feel smart to badmouth blockchain. But Nakamoto consensus does reach a consensus on value that is accepted by the network.

It's like saying a voting election didn't matter because certain people didn't participate.
That already happens. Right now, net marketing spend of $1 still returns > $1 in sales or whatever value metric the marketer wants - so in effect all the fraud is already priced in.

The problem is that the price is inflated and passed down to consumers so there is still strong motivation to actively combat ad fraud, at least until the cost of the combating is more than the savings, but that's a long way off.
I found his arguments either dishonest or ignorant. He basically said "Look, I don't have an ideology to push, I chose the license because it served MY needs, FSF is pushing an ideology is GPLv3 and I don't like that.". However, he certainly has an ideology which I call "The roman conception of freedom". It is favored by laze-faire free market types. This is not an "ideology-free" argument.

He is pushing an ideology just as much as the FSF is. At least the FSF is honest and clear about what that ideology is.
AI that knows how you want to be seen => VR avatar and personalized advertising applications. lots of other ideas, but no sense in thinking too much about them so early.
Encryption at rest [1] protects against someone who has access to the encrypted bytes from not being able to decrypt it. That is, if someone got the raw bytes off our storage somehow, it's not useful to them. If someone has access to your account, then the storage system can't tell if it's you or not.

Data in Datastore (and Firestore fwiw, that needs an update) is encrypted at rest, and today's paper discusses how it's also encrypted in transit between your app and the service. I don't believe Datastore supports Customer Supplied Encryption Keys [2] (yet) but that lets you have a key that even Google can't decrypt the data without you providing it. That's a pretty good way to separate permission from keys.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/security/encryption-at-rest/default...
[2] https://cloud.google.com/security/encryption-at-rest/custome...
My experience trying it just now with my girlfriend: I think we both like bitmoji better. With Mirror my girlfriend took her selfie probably 5 or 6 times to get one she was happy with, and had to try her hair in different styles to see what she liked. She also asked if there was more customization options like bitmoji. I don't think people really mind the setup time of bitmoji and possibly actually like playing with it.

Anyway, it's a cool app. I'm not trying to be a downer, just wanted to give you honest feedback.
It may be the sum of the users but it is not an equal sum. Companies like Google and Facebook make up too much of that sum.

And don't get me started on all the scummy people and sites online.
The way a company like a retailer delivers goods is an implementation detail under their control, not dictated purely by consumer habits. If the cost structure of shipping by truck changed, retailers would do a better job of traffic optimization or would even work out new operational processes that used fewer trucks. I know first-have that the current system has some real slack even at large retail chains.

Example: a lot of companies are not doing a great job of planning multi-hop truck routes and instead send a less full truck to every location. Similarly, the trucks are only full in one direction because that's easier to manage than planning routes that, for example, drop off at a store then visit a vendor before returning to a distribution center.

If trucking costs increased in proportion to road wear, you can bet improving these operational processes will be a higher priority!
Gas stations seem to still regularly have a credit card price that is different than their cash price.
I've pinged the PM to ask. Send me an email or check back here :).
They ran a poor test and / or the internal politics were always going to prove out a certain result. There is value to qualitative research and I doubt the answer was to do a better job of A/B testing.
> They did aggregate up until this point

Still an issue if most people support 1-2 creators with $1-2 pledges.
Thanks and I agree. We've got a lot of very naive people in the comments section here, it seems.
Really approachable writing. Fun read!

For people that want to read about other entropy sources: http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/how3.html
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Recently, I tried to access a paper I had written in the past to put in my grad school application, and couldn't get it. My current university doesn't have access to it. The irony is ridiculous.
I was struck by the similarity between this:

The tone of the site should be light. Most people are not comfortable with material that comes across as vitriolic, raging, non-ironic hatred. The unindoctrinated should not be able to tell if we are joking or not. There should also be a conscious awareness of mocking stereotypes of hateful racists. I usually think of this as self-deprecating humor - I am a racist making fun of stereotypes of racists, because I don't take myself super-seriously. This is obviously a ploy and I actually do want to gas kikes.

and Sartre's description of WWII-era anti-Semitism[1]:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play.

They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Semite_and_Jew
Then people would game the system. If someone wanted to send $100, they'd send 20 payments of $4.99 and 1 payment of $0.20... at least I would :)
> I agree - but backed with concerns based on legitimate understanding not "price is going up quickly, must be a scam".

Something that goes up and down so quickly and so frequently does warrant concern. Nobody has that understanding at the moment and it needs investigating.

> Because they did such a great job in 2008?

Maybe not the American government, but IIRC, Iceland is punishing the bankers (jail!) and the Canadian government has been praised for having kept a steady ship during the crisis through their economic policies. Governments can work.
As the article explains they want to use the money to pay out profits to shareholders, preferably via buybacks. They need to repatriate it to do that. Another foreign factory doesn't get them the cash in hand that they want.
that may be true.... but...

all leading security vendors have cloud based solutions with some of them offering 'private-cloud' based solutions which if was the case what they should be using... I cannot fathom this sort of situation as an real 'accident' and not some other form of misinformation.

if you are not utilizing the global up-to-second cloud-herd communication and technology you are more susceptible to attacks than others that are utilizing them.

I believe the purpose of these solutions is literally economic warfare. We are making it astronomically more expensive to have successful attacks more than _once_ (_if_ security is done right) to occur by implementing cloud based automation and sharing of information.
It may be better to invest that money if the rate of return is higher than the interest on their debt.
Replace the lot of em.
There are lots of other ways used as well. Client-side JavaScript that tracks mouse movement, for example. A combination of all of these combined with ML models give surprisingly accurate results.
The distinct difference is that if the increase is absorbed by the sellers, they either leave their prices the same or raise them, but the buyer is always paying the amount listed. If the increase is absorbed by the buyer, they can see the cost and buy it, and then be changed the extra amount at the end.

While you are correct that one way or another the buyer will be paying more it is how you present it (buyer raises price to counteract the increase vs seller being charged more directly by the service).
I lived in Spain for a year, and everyone had chips there. My US card always drew eyerolls as they had to find the /old/ machine and dust it off and find someone who remembered how to use it. I was excited that we were getting chips here in the US, but of course they fucked it up and for whatever reason it takes ages for your chip to be read, and there are frequent chip read errors.
I mean, you are getting free content in return though. I am very much against give-me-your-email-first designs that obfuscate what the actual product is or does until you fork over an email. But asking for an email address in a straightforward exchange for free content is not the worst thing.
Can't reply to you, so here it is. This is more akin to you saying the heaviest cat is 50 pounds, but I mention a 100 pound domestic cat, and you saying it was specific to a calico cat.
Idk, but options are really expensive. Most places charge a flat fee + per contract cost.
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From the article: Meanwhile, the Kantō Rengō members had started out working as drivers and bodyguards for the heads of major entertainment agencies. By this time, they were starting their own businesses, like loan sharking, adult movie production, and IT. The different members were pushing forward with their own various businesses. I myself had a legitimate web advertising firm that was highly profitable and growing rapidly.

There isn't much money in street crime. Unloading stolen goods is dead. Who wants a partly broken used car stereo? Any TV one person can lift is worthless. Used computers are E-waste. The old-line criminal organizations are either being bypassed or are moving into more profitable areas. Initial coin offerings, binary options, FOREX, and payday loans are the new big moneymakers.
> It's hard if you don't know what you're looking for.

Yes, that's tautologically true. You do have to put in some effort and thought.
Ah, that's new since I was involved with it. I stopped working with transactions directly in 2008. Thanks for the info!
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Yes, physics (and most disciplines on arXiv) is relatively special. Although for some reason physicists still mostly submit there work to the journals in addition to placing them on arXiv...

(That said, typesetting and writing are more and more often offloaded to academics, but there's also things like e.g. making HTML versions and system-readable versions [1] available, which is a cumbersome manual process.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_for_Metadata_Harvesti...
> erosion of the ability to confront boredom (let alone the skill to turn it into something useful)

I think this is greatly underestimated. In those moments when you just stare, your surroundings intepret it as fading out with a blank mind, when you're actually doing things like reflection, planning, fantasizing, etc. Very pleasant mental tasks!
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There is a world of difference between a Micro-ORM such as Dapper and a bloated mess of an ORM like Entity Framework. They are not even close to the same thing.
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You're ignoring the fact that increasing the number of distinct fees charged to Patrons translates directly to more money for Patreon (because Patreon was charging a much higher fee to Patrons than they themselves are actually paying on the transaction). Their public explanation was that a traditional subscription model is simpler, but it's obviously worse for users and the only reason to do that instead of the alternatives (such as the wallet approach) is so Patreon can get their cut of those extra fees.
I'm sure it would be 'pleasantly large' if I was used to reading books for 6 year olds.
Oh come on, that's like saying bit torrents are used for downloading legitimate software. No one uses it for those purposes, just like no kid is using their ipod/ipad/iphone/iwhatever for downloading and scripting Shakespeare for class. You are an EXTREME outlier.
It also extends to things outside finding like graduate school admissions or even peer review. On top of that, you know who's making the low-level decisions for giving grants? People from and steeped in the same academic culture. That's a much larger driving force than the politicians at the top of the funding organizations who don't even understand the intricate prestige ranking in academic fields to do anything actionable with it.
Was there an error in translation here?

>These criminals don’t belong to established yakuza groups, but they don’t have legitimate employment either. They make their living from violence or engage in crime on the side, in addition to their main job.

It seems to be saying they are part time criminals with real jobs, but it also says "they don't have legitimate employment".
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They don't all go to the retired (at least, not where I'm from). A lot of it is reinvested in order to save for future retirements.

But yes, the bootstrapping is still an interesting problem.
My recollection was that the volume coming from this one site was tiny, not like a DDoS. I don't recall if he said as much or if I was reading between the lines, but it sounded like he had just set up some sort of IDS, and it reported this traffic as an attack, and he just took that at face value.

We did have some UDP multiplication attacks at other times, mostly on our authoritative DNS servers. I don't recall that we ever had any against our NTP servers that I noticed. But we did block the broadcast address so the best multiplication vector was via DNS requests, IIRC the NTP responses were fairly short.
while that first part is most likely true where competition is concerned, once you get outside of the bigger cities, you run into cases where you have one, maybe two, competitors in the space that will service your area.

I'm not saying pro/anti-Net Neutrality is right here, but it seems anti-Net Neutrality works best when actual competition is involved and there is a lot of area in the US where that competition doesn't exist.
I also think most companies usually invest their additional cash into things that they think will grow faster than their debt interest. Long term it makes more sense to grow a part of their company that will have a larger return investment than being debt free.
Jesus Christ, that is creepy and perverted.
Different poster...

Certain parts of an AV product need to run with the top-most privileges. But that component should be relatively lean, and quickly hand off dangerous work to lower-privilege, memory isolated, processes.

Windows Defender has a process called NScript which is a full JavaScript processing engine, running in SYSTEM. A JavaScript engine is inherently complicated enough to have bugs, and running as SYSTEM with no isolation could allow escalating a bug into a full blown code execution just by visiting a web page. None of this is theoretical, it was found and exploited May 2017 [0].

You're correct in saying that Windows does allow more nuanced token control than the full user's context, but I'm yet to read that Windows Defender actually utilises that. None of the previous bugs have been stopped by low-priv style access control, it has been a full SYSTEM leak. Do you have specific information about Windows Defender which suggests they're using voluntary revocation of token privileges?

[0] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=12...
We've banned this account for getting involved in flamewars. If you want to comment here, you need to read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take those rules to heart. That means being strictly civil, avoiding flamebait, and especially no personal attacks.
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As I understand it, Haas has an entire facility solely dedicated to running full-time and supplying the machines that Apple installs in China for manufacturing iPhones--which are some of the most mechanically demanding products in the world.

I remember reading this from an article discussing the fact that it would be impossible for Apple to switch from metal to ceramic cases simply because they would have to redo a massive amount of tooling.
Right on! Also, I watched your Compromise presentation and loved it. Thanks again.
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You're going to ignore everything in my comment except the analogy? Way to go.
The images were broken for me, so I found the PDF a lot better of a read: https://www.cybereason.com/hubfs/Content%20PDFs/OSX.Pirrit%2...
Same issue, luckily i found a copy buried deep in my google drive
How do this work for services like Playstation or Steam, which have wallets like you're describing? Is it just the fact that you can't take money back out or what? (I have no idea about laws regarding banking/finance/etc)
If you want to blame anyone, blame publishers, not scientists. Open Access fees assessed by publishers are astronomical, and fall to the scientists seeking to publish them.

I haven't published in Nature yet, but my group has to fork over thousands per open access article above the usual cost. There is a disincentive to publish open access given that.
The way I've noticed people (accidentally) "hiding code" is by making changes during the conflict resolution stage of a git merge.

This often happens after code review, and there's no oversight of the conflict resolutions.

If the merge commit does get looked at, there will be potentially hundreds of lines and files of automated diffs within which the unrelated new code is hidden.
I wonder if having all of your members be independently mobile on their motorcycles allowed them to thrive in North America. It's so much easier to commit crime when you just hop on and off a bike, access paths unavailable to cars

Recently I've been reading about Vancouver's gang wars and it strikes me just how persistent Hells Angels seem to be compared to other groups that have all but disappeared off the radar or become friendly to Hells Angels.

Perhaps decentralization is the new organized crime paradigm...we won't be seeing supercartels like Cali anymore
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Hmm. Could one simply put on many more wheels? It has to be some nonlinear function of pressure per wheel?
I guess in the sense that you only need the Go toolchain, rather than also needing a C toolchain to compile+link an extra C object file into your binary.
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Not if you're from my country, because it's the law for you to throw money to it.

But yes, it appears we're waiting for a big crash, which is likely the result of those who __are__ likely to profit from it represent a substantive portion of the electorate, resulting in our leaders being reluctant in finding other/better systems.
Well, I would have considered "charge all at once" combined with "charge for every individual service charge" to be insane.

But... semantics. Charge once and apply one service fee would make a lot more sense.

Also, for online transactions, Stripe's percentage is 2.9%. Of course, there's a lot of caveats to Stripe's pricing, so I'm sure the actual charge amount changes.
"Decision theory is 1-player game theory" -- I think I saw this on LessWrong, once, but I can't find it now.
I find an age divider here, when I was joung a cell phone was something my parents had one, as such I took to class some magazines to read, no matter what bored pupil will find something, regardless academics, no one is special for being bored
I'm the one that's agreeing with the data.
2017, 2015, 2016. that's how it goes, despite the difference that is how it is.
If you are on Hackernews posting well written comments then I think you don't fall into this category of people who I would say have negative unit economics. But consider people with down's syndrome or severe mental disorders. Should we leave these people out to dry? I certainly don't think so. However, are they ever going to be able to contribute more to society than society contributes to them? Probably not. This might not be politically correct but I think the more we can accept reality the better we can do to improve it. There are no safety nets in the US, you are always a few disasters away from being homeless, this is a real problem that needs to be fixed, even if solving this problem costs more dollars than it generates.
> Hey buddy if I could swear at you I would

It's against the rules here to get involved in flamewars and especially to get personal like this. I realize some topics are personally intense and one isn't always able to contain the intensity, but in such cases we need to take a step back and not contribute to the downward spiral.

The rules at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html are simple and not easy, and we need everyone to stick to them.
Last few lines state how assistance was provided by various regional and international agencies, and then goes on to list google, coinbase, cloudflare, etc. Interesting.
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As you say, pro-rating first charge has the content unlock problem and "anniversary date" of charge defeats aggregation.

TLDR: Aggregate on a single day, but pro-rate the second month, not the first, so there isn't a "runt" payment up-front.

I start a monthly $20/mo pledge on Feb 15th. I'm billed $20 on the Feb 15th, same day. This covers one month, Feb 15th - March 15th. Let's say the first of the month is aggregation day. Come March 1st I'm already paid up through the 15th, so I get billed for the pro-rated $10 for the second half of March. Come April 1st and all aggregation days thereafter I can now be billed on aggregation day for the full monthly charge.
This isn't the Enterprise. Did you take a look at the people who run Patreon? I'm sure they are more shattered that people lost patrons than the fact that Patreon themselves lost money. They had good intentions - to get the creators paid 95% but they executed it poorly.
I don't know where saturdaysaint is located, but people in West Michigan really do think of Meijer as a local grocery store. Many older people refer to it as "Meijer's", as in "Fred Meijer's Thrifty Acres", the old name for the store when it was far smaller than it is today.

They've enjoyed a lot of success, but Michiganders still think of it as "our" store, and they're headquartered in a Michigan town you may have never even heard of.
Hopefully folks continue to migrate to them. It's pretty clear Patreon is only looking out for themselves at this point, and the "sudden" change in direction is because their bank account started to bleed.
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