skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do they go and cash out their coins immediately? If Bitcoin ever drops, they may lose everything.
"We buy things we don’t need, with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t like." - Fight Club

I'd venture to say that the majority of human effort today is spent on useless things. Consumerism is the base of our entire economic system, Bitcoin mining doesn't seem all that different to me.
> It's worth pointing out that particle-based fluid simulators are not physically accurate.

Depends on what you mean by "particle-based". Lattice Boltzmann models, given specific constraints, can be easily shown to converge to the Navier-Stokes (and, if desired, even higher order fluid dynamics models) equations via the Chapman-Enskog expansion.
You can check on the progress of Omemo support for the various XMPP clients here:

* https://omemo.top/
For each individual video, it is a onetime CPU cost, but not a onetime bandwidth cost.

For ongoing operation of the platform, at scale, you might argue that it's an ongoing CPU cost as more and more videos are added constantly, but the bandwidth to distribute those videos goes up at an equal rate on average.

I don't know any actual numbers, but it seems very plausible to me that a vast increase in CPU cost for a minor decrease of bandwidth cost could still be a welcome trade-off.

If you're making an argument that availability of CPU power at that scale is a concern, it seems like YouTube has the option of Google's cloud services as an excellent candidate for massive, interruptible compute power.
It's a Bloomberg article, I think they wanted to keep it simple on the tech side and focus on the money. Besides, electrical costs are essentially a predictor of difficulty. The higher the electrical costs the fewer miners there will be. Smaller operations and household miners might have to close up shop if high electrical costs and low Bitcoin price don't make mining feasible. Miners dropping off the network means the difficulty will drop too.
It seems like Vice took huge swaths of this as a guide, sadly inverted. Nothing for us here to worry about though!

Next stop, Mars.

...Uh oh...

Throw in a couple more modern cliches—something about driverless cars and the trolley problem, say—and Manning’s list could just as well be used today.

Ouch... ok that got personal in a hurry.
Fair enough, generally. The subway was pretty fine in my memories of the early 2000s to about 2010. Penn station, however, NJ Transit in particular, I feel started its decline before 2010. More and more people have been relying on these trains while the trains and system have been getting older and too big for their (ripping) britches.
The pretentiousness in your comment is mind bending. GTFO
> This revenue is split with content creators, enabling them to invest in more and better content to the benefit of their users.

and that's become an abusive relationship where they are being de facto censored by google because of advertisers being skittish. You have more sponsored content showing up because it's a lot easier than relying on google and their amazing algorithms to not screw you over.
Acorn Archimedes - A Technical Introduction - 1987 BBC VHS Video. [1] Quoting from YouTube description: "Fred Harris talks to Roger Wilson about the technical aspects of the Acorn Archimedes A305. Also features footage from Zarch by David Braben. Produced by the BBC. Digitised from VHS Video Tape by The Centre for Computing History."

According to Wikipedia [2]: "The Acorn Archimedes was the first RISC-based home computer." and "The Archimedes was one of the most powerful home computers available during the late 1980s and early 1990s". Article also includes basic performance comparisons with m68k (Amiga & Atari).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKTa54UikgE

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes
I guess I am pretty stupid. Good to know.
Any sufficiently complex CPU surely contains some number of defects, perhaps even serious security defects, just as any sufficiently complex piece of software contains bugs and security holes. I wouldn't be surprised if someone tries to sue Intel over this, or even if they win, but this is way outside the scope of what a warranty would traditionally cover, which in the case of a CPU would be hardware failure. If a warranty had to cover every possible defect, a bunch of people would be constantly trying to get free CPUs out of Intel every time they updated their errata:

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents...

Note that the cost of overly onerous regulation (e.g. requiring that every computer manufacturer replace these chips even though the problems can largely be worked around in software) is of course passed onto consumers.
OpenSSL wins the Levchin prize
> Building tunnels under a river isn't simple.

It's fairly simple as it is a 200 year old technology. It's not rocket science. What's not simple is how to divide the taxpayer money between the elites.
Stand-Up Meets Bagel
We shouldn't be preventing or putting barriers in front of automation, but...

> Will it negatively effect lots of people in the short term? Sure.

... this is actually a huge problem that we don't have a solution for. Telling people "sorry, you won't have a job for a year or two while you retrain" isn't acceptable without some sort of assistance. Social and political will seem to be against this sort of thing, so what do we do?
We are talking about and learning a lot from Bitcoin. A lot. this is a valuable experiment. Especially if you consider what could have been, but isn’t, which we couldn’t know in advance. [edit: and still could be—who knows? Only one way to find out :)]

We could do worse than Bitcoin. Diamonds, for example…

[edit 2: disclosure: I have no stake in either :p ]
My view of all these cryptocurrencies is that the math and CS they're originally based on is pretty cool, and they do provide a proof of concept of a rather difficult distributed consensus task.

But all the speculation right now cares about none of that. They only care about optimizing how quickly people can be convinced to throw money at the coin. They don't need to do the math right, they just need it to sound right. IOTA is a prime example.

IOTA does cryptography like a literal cargo cult does aviation. They just went through the motions without understanding what they're doing. They rolled their own hash function, in ternary for some dumb reason. It turned out to be vulnerable to attacks known for decades the moment a cryptographer looked at it. The spin they've come up with after that indicates that they don't fundamentally understand why not to roll your own crypto, especially not a hash function.

They are amateurs, screwing around. Any research you've read in distributed consensus, I guarantee you that the IOTA team doesn't understand it.

The fact that you included IOTA in your list undermines the credibility of your entire list, and makes me at least think that you haven't applied your expertise in consensus systems to looking at what these coins actually do.

More information: https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/iota-response/
Zapier Software Trends Report: What We Learned from 1,000 SaaS Apps
I'm surprised to hear there aren't more manufacturers in China that reverse engineer Bitmain's circuits, replicate, and sell them in the local market where US IP law doesn't apply.
The difference was in the 90s you had companies that got those valuations by actually selling technology, instead of privacy hating ad companies.
Because reverse engineering some IM protocols is far from trivial. Skype, in particular, is a nightmare of obfuscation, as I understand (second hand knowledge from having wanted to replace it with Pidgin in the past, I haven't tried reverse engineering it myself).
A website’s TOS is not law so why should the violation of a TOS be treated like a violation of the law? Curious if anyone has any arguments
It doesn't matter if bitcoin becomes a global currency or not.

Napster never survived it was replaced with Limewire and then Bittorrent.

V1 of a technology as disruptive as this doesn't necessarily survive in the end. Version 2 or Version 3 is where it gets really interesting.
Money has/is currency when it is generally accepted. Bitcoin is unlikely to ever be generally accepted for various reasons. The transaction costs are too high, it's inconvenient for typical currency users, and you can't pay essential expenses such taxes in it.
Again, I am unsure how this relates to "The Billion Dollar Mistake" I linked above and was referring to.

I am not sure your point. The reason modern systems don't map memory to 0x0 is because NULL pointers exist. It is a reflection of a leaky abstraction equating pointers to references. That leaky abstraction has (or so the argument goes) caused >$1B in software bugs.

The other mindset would be "malloc always has to allocate memory or otherwise indicate failure; you cannot cast from a integer to a pointer; you cannot perform arithmetic on a pointer to get a new one; you must demonstrate there are no hanging references when freeing". This is essentially what rust did for safe code.

The reason why I indicate so much skepticism is that rust is the first time I've seen the problem solved well in the same problem space as C. Ada has problems of its own. It's more about how small assumptions can have massive economic (and health, and safety, and ethical) consequences. Certainly comparable to a speculative execution bug leaking memory in an unprotected fashion--in both cases the bugs find their way through human error in evaluating enormously complex systems for incorrect assumptions :)
Well, except for chrome using their near monopoly on search to shove a browser in your face that further cements their place in search. and bundling it with the OS on mobile.
Positivity is marketing, you can get that anywhere. I come to places like HN to see what's honestly bad about various technologies and tools.

And don't tell me no editors are really worse than any other editors. That's crap.
re: "Whether it’s helping those with Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, vision impairment, or just those who want to get around with less friction..."

I can see the positives of less friction for this segment of the population. Kudos.

That said, what effort has Voyage put into helping the local community (and law enforcement) prepare for this?

For example, a person with Alzheimer's gets lost...now what? True, this might happen now but if you're successful then the social infrastructure might not be ready, willing and able to handle the add demands on that system.

I'm going to hang up and take my answer off the air :)
> What about the Saudi King?

About $17 billion (in 2016, sure, but probably hasn't gotten anywhere close to Bezos since; also, not even the richest member of the royal family.)
If I recall correctly, bitcoins from a coinbase (mining reward) transaction can only be transferred after 100 blocks confirmation (ie about 16.5 hours). I'd assume that they might keep a bit of a speculative long position, but otherwise liquidate - they have bills to pay.
Just because you've observed a behavior in yourself doesn't mean it's inevitable.

Also, look up the nocebo effect.
Except people don’t buy anything with bitcoin ( and i’ve read about potential millionaires, but never about people having actually made millions of usd, since nobody sells).

For the moment it’s only the most gigantic and cpu intensive distributed number increment algorithm.
And if I could add a meta type of story I wish reporters would stop writing, it would be "The Death of X", when X is not a living being; e.g. The Death of [some Technology]. Most technologies never die. They just fade asymptotically. And all the premature announcements of death, while they're great for clicks, are less great for giving readers information...
Note that the article is a summary/advertisement for an analyst report. Hopefully the report itself takes difficulty into account.
I couldn't help but notice some interesting items get cloned in the onboarding GIF (which was 16MB, yikes)

- https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph-classic

- https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph-archive-private-2...

- https://github.com/sourcegraph/infrastructure

- https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph

- https://github.com/sourcegraph/definfo-prototype

- https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph-desktop

- https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph-emacs-beta

- https://github.com/sourcegraph/splunk-promethus-alerts

- https://github.com/sourcegraph/ZARCHIVED-corporate

- https://github.com/sourcegraph/css-langserver

Listed as they showed up in the GIF. That was fun!
Yelp Accused of Hiding Positive Reviews for Non-Advertiser
Wow. Um...what was his medical condition?
Nuclear weapons? Their existence is a blight on humanity. MAD hasn’t prevented wars, only caused them to be outsourced to countries no one cared about like Vietnam and Afghanistan. It is only through dumb luck that a superpower has not destroyed the world by accident

The military-industrial complex:

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Yeah I guess I just couldn't believe what I was reading that two people so closely related to each other could have the same outcome. It's just staggering news and quite hard to comprehend.
Show HN: HttpClientModule with parameter encodings compatible with back ends
Intel would just say it functions exactly as designed. :)

(because it's a design flaw)
Thanks for the info. One more question if you have the time: to what degree are you limited by data, vs. other factors? If you could have 10x the training data, would that 10x your performance, or are other factors in the way (eg. compute, neural net architecture, etc.)?
The author seems to go out of his way to demonstrate that he doesn't understand how cryptocurrencies work, and half the article is somewhere between factually incorrect and misleading. It's amusing that he felt the need to demonstrate that the dollar is the more established currency.

At the end he's pretty much correct though. Crypto has a long way to go before it's demonstrated to not just be a speculative bubble. I hope it gets there ... or at least I think I do.
> Imagine we had a system that automatically rewarded cyclists, or people who just take a cold shower--any of the millions of small things--for curbing pollution.

Several prominent conservative Republicans proposed about a year ago a system that would do that [1]. They were James Baker (Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan, Secretary of State under GHW Bush), Martin Feldstein (chairman of Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors), George Shultz (Secretary of State under Reagan), Henry Paulson, (GW Bush's Treasury Secretary), and N. Gregory Mankiw (chairman GW Bush's Council of Economic Advisers), and others.

Their proposal was for a revenue-neutral carbon tax starting at $40 per ton. It would be collected at the source (such as at oil refineries), and the money collected would be returned to to the taxpayers. They estimated that would be about $2000 back to a family of four.

If the rate is set right, it would be break even for a person who is carbon neutral. The tax would raise the prices on things they buy and use that produce carbon, but their share of the distribution should be about the same amount.

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/group-prominent-repub...
There is no point. A paragraph later, "I understand that the entire development of this ecosystem is new, hence the need to compare it to existing forms of money. And, yes, 10 or 20 years from now, dollars may be obsolete and bitcoin could be the world's reserve currency."

This article is terrible. One empty contradictory statement after another with zero actual analysis. It really is shameful this kind of thing gets published by someone who calls himself a senior analyst & commentator.
At this time, nothing other than update BIOS.

My Windows systems are VMs so I updated to the latest ESXI release (as of yesterday) which includes microcode. See https://www.vmware.com/us/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0004...
Washington Law Targeting Domestic Abusers Yields Report of 71 Attempted Gun Buys
A lot of Microsoft cheerleading/astroturfing on Hacker News these days.
That’s historically untrue. Bitcoin forks and Ethereum forks have users. I don’t think there is such a thing as this “real blockchain“... care to define what “real” means?

If you say it’s the one with the greatest market cap, then you’re agreeing with me that blockchains don’t provide scarcity and assets can be copied, albeit on blockchains with less liquidity.

Furthermore, the subjectivity of what is the “real” blockchain means an artist can believe she owns an asset on ChainA, only to see ChainB become the market leader but her asset is now owned by another individual.

We have failed to solve the problem the parent poster supposes blockchain can solve...
The solution in Casper: if you approve more than one block at the same height, someone can submit both your approvals to the winning chain, which destroys your stake on that chain. The submitter gets a reward. There's a long delay to withdraw your stake so plenty of time for someone to submit.
Sure we do, google updated play services.

Big part of the reason I switched to iPhone.
Cheers :-)
Then what happens after those 3 years? Nevermind what would happen if Bezos liquidated 100% of his stock.

There are side effects of him creating such wealth. Maybe you can’t see them directly but they are there. Advances made in tech allow for people everywhere in the world to benefit. Look at smart phone penetration which allows people knowledge, greater communication, etc.

None of this comes about by what you’re commenting on. Take a look at the Gates foundation and how many tens of billions which are pledged by the world richest.

It’s very easy to judge and comment from the stands. I’d love to see what your daily activities are to help the world’s poorest. I’d dare say what they want is a job that comes from foreign investment rather than a sack of UN grains for the month’s rations.
DejaLu – a fast and simple email client for macOS by the author of Sparrow
i'd expect that kind of stupidity from reddit, but here? Has mainstream media truly got such a hold over everyone? that they can destroy the reputation of a service (and a political refugee) while doing absolutely everything they accuse the service of doing, except blatantly and malevolently?

Starting to wonder whether the west deserves a service like Wikileaks; maybe we should be condemned back into the days where whistle blowers were quietly dealt with and the population could live in dumb ignorance.
I can highly recommend the BBC drama "Micro Men", about the early years of the British home computer boom and the rivalry between Sinclair and Acorn. It gives a real flavour of the mad, maverick years before the IBM clones took over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM
Is that quote a reference to something?
It might be that...

I also like to think that young people just don't really understand the full picture of how all of this actually works...they just think they do and that google/SO/wikipedia contains the answers they they don't have to know.

Our abstraction layers are that good. You can write code in a framework, ship and make millions and suddenly you're a tech genius!

In fairness to them though, when I was starting out 20 years ago, if you could sling a few lines of HTML and make things appear in a browser, people certainly treated you like one.
What else can you do when cities want/need large corporations more than more than the corporation needs them? I mean one of the wealthiest areas in my metro area is sustained mostly by a single fortune 500. If they threatened to leave you better believe they'll grovel at the font of wealth that allows their entire community to exist.
I'm a native English speaker and once received a Big Mac with no meat from a McDonalds in America.
Yeah... that's United economy. Any change costs you money. And you have to fly United, which... no. Not even for a short hop.

I happily would pay $40 more for easy changes + private terminal.
It seems well past the experiment stage. The question I have is if the ideas presented in Hashgraph have already rendered the whole Blockchain approach obsolete. I think Bitcoin may be dead already and not know it yet.
There have been a ton of mining ASIC companies but all but two of them went out of business. For some reason VCs have mostly refused to touch mining so the ASIC vendors had to use crowdfunding which went horribly wrong.
Skype I know is infamously hard, but I'm wondering about the more general case -- are the problems there similar to the problems with Skype, or are they due to something else?
Not really? Just hashcash, intrinsically.
In the previous bubble, there was a manufacturer that would 'test' or 'burn in' the miner until it became unprofitable to run and then they'd ship it to you. They'd get paid twice.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-mining-company-...
The answer (perhaps unfortunately) is to tax individuals who work at said company, because corporations can move around very freely. People, much less so.
For open wounds there is also maggot therapy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggot_therapy
I Cured My Adult Acne
>V1 of a technology as disruptive as this doesn't necessarily survive in the end. Version 2 or Version 3 is where it gets really interesting.

The technology that's here to stay is blockchain, the currencies associated with them are irrelevant in the grand scheme for now. I think Bitcoin has the brand recognition to hang in there for a while, but if nothing new is brought to the table with every newly introduced altcoin they're destined for failure.

Even Kodak is trying to get into cryptocurrency/blockchain game. I think DRM via smart contracts is a feasible and cool concept, but no one is going to take Kodakcoin (it's a real thing) seriously unless it has liquidity and value beyond photographers. Until they can leverage atomic swaps it's going nowhere in my opinion.
Yes, the longer they don't take us seriously, the farther ahead we'll be when they finally understand.

Let them think cryptocurrencies are a passing fad. Let them believe they're secure in their offices and studios.

The longer they believe this the better for us.
One reason that people are working on blockchain things all over the place because money is pouring into it at an absurd rate thanks to investors' fear of missing out on the next big thing. This is not a criticism, there is nothing wrong with entrepreneurs going where the capital is.
> i'd expect that kind of stupidity from reddit, but here

and the very next sentence

> Has mainstream media truly got such a hold over everyone
Just a hunch: No-one in the industry with the means to do anything about it thinks the trend is sustainable enough to invest in a 6mo-1yr setup followed by another year before profit?
You don't need to keep a master list of IP addresses up to date, you only have to test an IP when a request for a cert comes in from that IP.
There are absolutely people who have cashed out significant non-crypto money from BTC. In fact crypto has allowed multiple people I know to retire.

Bitcoin also offers the very real value of enabling monetary transactions without government involvement. That’s a huge deal to some of us who value individual liberty and/or live under corrupt regimes.
If they can control the camera, they can control the mic which is arguably scarier for most people.
Being a major global currency is never the goal. Even if it's something people want to achieve, there are still many factors, how loose the central banks control fiat money flow is one of them.
Dealers make almost zero margin on car sales(aside from used and trade-in shenanigans). The majority of their margin comes from services so they'll happily gouge you on them.