skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might be better served checking the "Events" section of your local paper (which is like an advertisement page, but accurate, targeted, and curated) rather than relying on internet advertisements.
I think that the end game of Lightning is very bad. Imagine that Bitcoin remains relevant and continues to have huge market cap for several years and that Lightning takes off to the point that most transactions use Lightning and the cost of an actual on-chain transaction drops to a few tens of cents. The reward for mining a block will drop significantly (as originally planned in the Bitcoin design), and the transaction fees per block will also drop significantly.

On the flip side, with Lightning, it's possible to steal quite a lot of money if you have the ability to prevent transactions from being mined (i.e. if you can mount a 51% attack). In particular, you can prevent any penalty transactions against yourself from ever showing up on the blockchain.

In other words, Lightning will drive the profit available from 51% attacks up and will drive the profit available from honest mining down. What happens when they cross over?
I dug up the source on this one, there was basically only one opportunity the Japanese really had:

https://web.archive.org/web/20131109191414/http://www.yvwiiu...
This is going to sound crazy, but I've been thinking about it for the past few months.

A fully digital city:

* Imagine a full digital office: all of your files at easy access all around you

* Imagine reading Apple News on a balcony looking out at the city

* Imagine FaceTime, but being able to walk around a room with your friends

* Imagine digital storefronts where you can look at 3D models, then conveniently buy with Apple Pay.

* Imagine what 3rd party developers could do...

Yes, it's a moonshot, mostly science fiction. But the tech is almost there. The real trick, of course, is giving it mass appeal - making it widely accessible. But if there's any company that's built on making things accessible, it's got to be Apple.
Ask HN: Thoughts on being required to log time in an effort-tracking system?
I've been a salaried software engineer for several years (multiple employers). My current employer is rolling out an "effort tracking" initiative which is managed in part by a dedicated team of PMP-type folks. We are being asked to enter hours into this system, to help track project costs, etc.

Is this a sign that things are not good financially where I work? I'm not sure what to think.

I'm curious to hear opinions others have on the subject.
Yev from Backblaze here -> We do have a 30-day retention window. So if the data is on your computer, or the externals are connected we'll keep a copy of it, but if the drives are removed and/or the data is removed from your computer, the 30-day timer starts. For an archive solution that keeps data for as long as you want we built out Backblaze B2, which is $0.005/GB!
I highly doubt this would be the case. Well designed GUI's makes learning software significantly easier than without GUIs.

Just imagine going to a chemical plant that makes fertilizer. Now imagine you have an operator that stares at 5 or 6 screens showing each IO process for making said paper. From the drying process, to the chemical rxns, heat, temp, water, pressure ,etc. Its a complex system to understand, and GUI's make it easier to break down.

Take away the GUI and throw in all python REPL and CLI. Things will go to shit so fast. Plants will shut down. Operators will need to be retrained and paid more to understand the inner workings of what the GUI was doing.

Thats not to say that CLI and REPL are necessarily worst than their GUI counterpart. A good example where CLI and REPL are significantlly better than its GUI counterpart outside of programming would be AutoCAD (AutoDesk). Any competent architect uses a list of well known shortcut hotkey commands, through its CLI. Such as "M" for move an object, "O" for offseting a line. It takes way longer to use a GUI to do this.

Arguably, some common GUI interfaces for programming like GIT makes it much easier to do things, like branch off, rebase, merge, and pull. I personally prefer Atom's built in GUI, or even a possible stand-alone, as I simply cannot remember every GIT command when I need too. Just the most common ones.

Lastly, windows/mac VS Linux. Its thanks to the GUI-based systems in windows/mac that make it much more popular and appealing to programmers and nonprogrammers a like, for focusing on things that actually matter (Business functions, persona life, etc).
We started using it when the API was already available, and tied in error alerts from our integration server on day one. We've added a lot more since then, among them jenkins, monitoring thresholds on our AWS instances, etc.
I have a hobby that I read 3-4 print magazines for (fishing in the northwest, not that it matters) and after numerous times talking to the publishers, I still, in 2018, cannot get them to distribute an electronic version. I would pay big money for a digital archive of one of them all the way back to the 60's. They all fear piracy so strongly they won't innovate. Boggles my mind.
Are you running WordPress? At some point was it hacked? Is it hacked now? If it was at some point, maybe those were all real pages in the past. If it is now, maybe the bad guys just changed what they were doing. I've seen pages like this generated in hacked WordPress sites.
At least Sweden's government has some teeth when it comes to wages and living standards. Ours (US) could give a shit except for the living standards of the Kochs.
I buy a subscripton to a Home Interiors mag for my sister every year at Christmas.
Thunderbolt is basically external PCIe, so that's not surprising.

Quite frankly, I'm not worried about physical access being a "vulnerability" --- I'm of the "if you physically own it, you should logically own it" mindset.
"You need to lock up large amounts of bitcoin in these channels for significant amounts of time."

That's actually false. The protocol actually limits channels to a fraction of a bitcoin currently (something like 0.1 or maybe even 0.01 BTC).
If you visit a few different ssh hosts in a week, and just a few new hosts each month, then trusting the host cert manually is feasible (but who actually verifies).

But it's easy in a short browsing session for your User Agent to connect to hundreds of machines over TLS. Manually verifying them all is not feasible. And verify against what? A webpage? How is that validated.

TLS and X.509 certs have their flaws, but ssh style trust is not the solution.

The problem is: if your browser adds a CA to it's trust root, it can issue (and thus your browser trusts) any site on the internet.

I would rather that if I visit https://www.police.uk then the certificate is issued by a CA that specifically allowed to issue .uk domain certs.

Currently my system trusts "Belguim Root CA2" and "Amazon Root CA 1". Should they be able to sign certs for the .ca or .edu domains?

Do I trust Amazon enough to not issue certs for their competitors?
No, the same way as I avoid to buy anything available in a digital version (books, movies, video games, etc).
Yev from Backblaze here -> If we detect a missing drive we send a warning email at the 14-day, 21-day, and 28-day mark to remind folks to plug them in - or create a restore if they no longer have the drives. If they still don't plug in the drive after those days, then the backup does get removed, but we do try to warn them ahead of time!
> What I find disturbing is that immigrant criminals, who haven't contributed to society at all, often do not get sentenced to deportation.

Correct

Most (of the criminals under threat of deportation) just come with some "creative" story about how they are persecuted in their original country (for being extremists, most likely) and how they will face the death penalty there (while they probably killed or have contributed to the death of many)
It had a lot of advantages. A big one being the extremely small number of people who spoke it and who lived exclusively in North America.

They could also have “fun” and make it very hard to crack. For example they could call a submarine a “metal fish” one day and a “sea snake” the next day and leave everybody scratching their heads. As a native speaker they could use subtle context to convey the message and that turns out to be extremely difficult for an outsider to grasp.
Pre-logon DMA attacks were addressed by Apple in Dec 2016, https://9to5mac.com/2016/12/19/mac-thunderbolt-password/
Talks I have given
Wow. I didn't know about #1. That is absolutely, categorically fatal. If that's true then lightning is DOA.

Nothing to see here.
Barry and Honey Sherman: The mystery of the strangled billionaires
Yev from Backblaze here -> We've been running on the unlimited model for a long time now and it's working well for us. It's like a buffet, some folks eat more, some folks eat less, but as long as the average is below our costs to provide the service we'll keep doing it. We DO have a cloud storage offering (similar to S3) which allows folks to store data indefinitely (or as long as they want it) and that one costs $0.005/GB!
Perhaps it's a sign that the management has no idea how much effort is spent on what, which amounts to driving blind. If you're asked to enter _hours_ (not minutes, or even seconds), I wouldn't worry, this is SOP.
Case in point on the subject of information transfer: I prefer to book my own flight, directly with the airline, so I can make sure the "Blind or low vision" checkbox gets checked. Then, maybe, they won't tell me to get in a wheelchair, assuming the correct information gets transferred all the way to the person helping me through the airport.
> Ours (US) could give a shit except for the living standards of the Kochs.

Then stop voting for Koch crony-republicans and tea party fundamentalists.
Greece Macedonia: Name dispute draws mass protest in Athens
Thank you, i’m embarrassed to say i fell for it. Now i have to research and find out the likely truth.
In the US, if you're perfectly productive, legal, highly qualified and well-behaved member of society on H1B from China or India it might still take you 10-15 years to become a resident, so the situation isn't totally rosy here either. And you certainly won't have the right to work on your own idea while you're on that visa, so that's a long time to wait before you can even get started.

Probably explains why so many people will try to game the system and claim to belong to the O-1 category.
Success in sports is very different than success in programming. There are very specific events that people have a limited time to train their bodies for so that they peak at the right moments. If you don't do it within that time frame, the opportunity is lost. A programmer doesn't have a comparable definable event and there's no limit to the amount of times you can peak with creating a business outside of dying. All athletes must ultimately redefine themselves, whether as a trainer/coach or move to a completely different industry. When that transition happens they have to live with the result of the investment they made in their athletic careers. A coder can program from childhood to death and never has to redefine themselves outside of learning more languages, frameworks, platforms and that applies to their entire life.
Hey there sorry - if you look at my reply history you'll see I try to hit most topics, but when I looked last night those were the only comments there :D I'll get to the rest!
This was my thought as well. Generally when I have a question about rails, there are very few things that I cannot find an answer for now, compared to when I was working on it roughly some 12 years ago.
The law is in place to prevent foreign workers from being exploited. That they voluntarily reduce their own salary is not relevant to the implementation (as they could have been pressured to reduce it). Still, the outcome is absurd.

I wonder if it is because of the inherent rigidness of civil law? would a common law system solve this better?
I use my 980 Ti via thunderbolt on my laptop, it’s about a 3-10% performance hit. The main issue is that quite a few laptops struggle to do the full 40gbps error free.

Nice thing though is my laptop gets power over the USB-C cable thunderbolt 3 uses, so it’s only 1 cable to plug in.
I do prefer a hard copy print of things, but the issue I have with print magazines is its loaded with advertisements everywhere normally.

Its like browsing a web article without running uBlock origin. Once you have an adblock its hard to go back

The only ones I remember enjoying are national geographic though.
Nouveau test du logiciel mSpy pour espionner un telephone
Yev from Backblaze here -> glad to see you're at least trying the restore process! You'd be surprised how many folks forgo that in its entirety and then panic should they need to restore. Always good to check the system out from upload to download! Kudos!
So much craft is lost! In the Spielberg movie "The Post" there are some wonderful scenes of type setting using boards and lead. I also enjoyed the scene where the printed, folded newspapers ran on a huge conveyer belt until they were taken and collected for delivery. When I graduated from high-school, we got the final results from the morning newspaper. Hundreds of us and our parents got up before dawn, drove downtown, and waited until the huge doors of the paper delivery dock opened. Kids whose job was to sell papers on the street ran out and made a bonanza day selling the first edition to us. What followed were the cheers and tears you would expect. The day is etched permanently in my memory. No comparison with an email congratulating me and enclosing my transcript.
Mac OSX is outdated and buggy. Apple does not put much effort into fixing it. It's past time to create Mac OSXI. They need to hire more software engineers if they can't do better than what they have now.
The chrome extensions we can't live without
I know many places that are more like a tourist attraction. Tallinn or Bruges' historic centres for example. I fail yo see what's wrong with it? The lagoon is full of islands that can offer other lifestyles if anybody wants that.
How to Hack Evolution
"Why poor process control and lack of training is a bigger productivity drain than Candy Crush Saga."
National Geographic and I'd like to get Nautilus' prints as well, but I've heard that they have (or had) a tough time getting orders fulfilled in a timely manner. I'd really dislike getting a certain month's magazine a month or more later; for me, in such cases, consistency is key.
Neither of you has said explicitly what you mean by "better" and likely have different measures in mind when saying it here.
Achilles willingly left Greece, knowing he would die in Troy, so that he could be known as the greatest warrior in history. Alexander the Great supposedly broke down and cried when he felt he had nobody left to overcome. Julius Caesar in turn, after subduing all of Gaul, wept at the feet of Alexander's statue some 200 years later, lamenting that at the age of 38, he had accomplished nothing compared to Alexander. And there are plenty of such examples in non-Western societies where the losers didn't just get a silver medal; but were killed. This story is as old as humanity itself and just as ubiquitous. I think the fashionable, progressive approach to blaming society is wrong in this case. Seeking greatness over peaceful mediocrity may simply be a character 'flaw' in mankind. As such, failure has become one of our signature moves.
Thank you for sharing that article, quite thought-provoking!

I think the problem we're facing is not in itself the desire to improve ourselves. Rather, it's doing it with the wrong focus and for the wrong reasons.

I found this quote from the article illuminating: "Spicer reflects that he has spent the year focusing on himself to the exclusion of everything, and everyone, else in his life." There is nothing inherently bad about improving your diet, working on your physical fitness or boosting your self-discipline. Becoming healthier and more productive can be worthy goals, but if they cause you to forget the people around you, they are the wrong goals. Self-improvement that is limited to the self is nothing but glorified egocentrism. We can become better athletes, better workers, better anything; but if we don't become better friends/neighbours/partners while we're at it, it won't make us better people.

Secondly, the reasons why we wish to improve ourselves. This is something I cannot talk about without reference to my Christian faith, because the two are deeply intertwined. For my faith tells me that I am not perfect and never can be on this earth, but that that is all right, because God loves me just as I am. At the same time it tells me that God loves me too much to let me stay the way I am, that He has given me an incredible potential that I can develop and that I can work on my imperfections knowing that He will help me. Therefore, when I read books or form habits to improve myself, I am not doing so because I need to, but because I can. I don't have to prove anything to anybody, but I can joyfully grow and develop in areas in which God has given me a greater potential than I have currently reached.
No, the processing capacity is about 7 transactions per second. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_scalability_problem
Ask HN: What desktop calculator app do you use?
On Windows or Linux.
Be curious if Google will add support for the PVC in the Pixel 2 phones?
Not exactly banks, but there's a huge chance they will be big corps with a money transmitter license, KYC, AML. What if they refuse your channel or transaction?
AFAIK, SQL Server's Hekaton engine only compiles the queries inside of stored procedures and UDFs. They do not compile every query that comes in from the client:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/in...
How about support for the PVC in the new Pixel phones?
Savjee has a great 5 min video breaking down bitcoins proposed lightning network

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrr_zPmEiME
iCloud is definitely a good option but we wrote this up a while back -> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/sync-vs-backup-vs-storage/. We view it still as more of a Dropbox/Syncing solution. If you work 100% out of your iCloud account you could make the argument that all the data's there, but in all of our research and polling, that's not the case (even when folks have the 2TB plan - they still tend to store data all over their computer). It'll definitely be interesting to see how the service develops. We have a lot of folks that are integrating with Backblaze B2 that are doing interesting things as well! It's definitely an exciting space to be playing in right now!
No. I sometimes miss it but reading on a tablet has taken over that. I will semi-regularly see what electronic mags I can get through the public library or what is available on Amazon's prime reading.
>I'm of the "if you physically own it, you should logically own it" mindset.

I agree with the premise, but accepting that as a truism sure makes running an off-site server rough.
China plans to use AI to boost thinking skills of nuclear submarine commanders
Another commenter noted that is supported; they provide a tool to convert the tflite model to Core ML format:

https://developers.googleblog.com/2017/12/announcing-core-ml...
> It's carbon neural, not carbon negative

What does the headline of this thread say?

> Stripping CO2 from the air and using it to produce carbon-neutral fuel

So, where's the benefit over trees? The drawback is that the fuel doesn't have any uses other than to burn it for energy. Trees, on the other hand, just suck up increasing amounts of CO2 while they grow and they don't have to be turned into fuel.
Yev from Backblaze -> we're seeing a lot more folks go the NAS route, and so we're trying to work with all of the NAS providers to get B2 integrated into their ecosystems. We love the idea of having "working files" on the computer a "local archive" on the NAS, and then files forked off to B2 for an offsite component. 3-2-1 Backup at its finest!
Bloomberg Businessweek
Interesting. I want text. I figure that I can get pretty pictures online. I want it to be full of text. I guess that would depend on the subject matter though.
This is a story playing out in a lot of western countries, especially in Europe.
Ditto. The Economist covers topics in depth that I don't see covered at all elsewhere.
I also subscribe to 'The New Yorker'. I disagree vehemently with their politics but respect them as a source of good writing on diverse and sometimes tweaky topics.
Which "HyperDB" are you talking about? I already listed Tableau's HyPer. Here are the other "hyper" systems that I know about and they don't do LLVM compilation:

* HyperDex (http://hyperdex.org/)

* HyperGraphDB (http://www.hypergraphdb.org/)

* HyperSQL (http://hsqldb.org/)

* Hypertable (http://hypertable.org/)
What lurks below nasa's chamber a
I get the AAII journal and Ad Astra because of my memberships in those orgs. Rarely have time to read them but they are sometimes really interesting. Have been considering getting one of the ham radio mags.
Not counting the engineers union magazines I get, the only one I subscribe is Skrolli, which is a Finnish hobbyist computer magazine. They have international numbers if you are interested, highly recommended for anyone interested in specialized topics and retro computers.

Check out the international edition here: https://skrolli.fi/en/international/
It's great to find this piece. After one year+ of Julia usage I am really excited about it's future, and cannot help but feel that old blog post misrepresents what Julia has become
Yev from Backblaze here -> sorry to hear about the long restore process. We definitely take restores seriously and our latest release 5.0 (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/cloud-backup-5-0-rapid-access...) addressed a lot of bottlenecks that could affect some customers. You can now also restore-by-mail and send us that hard drive back for a refund, so should you try us again in the future, you'll have more options!
Yes, 1Password supports long passwords, but it's password generator can generate only 64 character long. (I'm not talking about word-based passwords).
HSBC used(?) to do this. It was a reason I closed account there.
I hate when they confuse CO2 extraction with "cleaning the planet". Such popularizing/oversimplifying is irresponsible! These are two completely different things; clearly someone who submitted this to HN understood it too when adding the title.
to simplify: this is a (potentially) carbon-neutral "liquid battery"
This is a really nice update! A lot of work has gone into Julia the last few years.
Ask HN: HN Is Blocking Private Internet Access
I use Private Internet Access for my VPN, and I'm sure others here do too. HN is blocking this provider. @HNStaff can we please do something here?