skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When you bought, someone else was saying the same thing about you :)

Thus the hierarchy of idiocy. I believe the decision, as someone who has studied CS and economics and became deeply interested in the white paper and the game-theoretic and macroeconomic consequences of cryptocurrencies, to buy post-MtGox (which I did) vs. everyone and their grandmother feeling FOMO (and quite literally expressing this as their motivation) as they seek to buy during last year's explosion in popularity, suggests quite different risk assessments, neither of which I can morally defend in retrospect.
FACEBOOK FUNDED MOST OF THE EXPERTS WHO VETTED MESSENGER KIDS
In a proof-of-work chain, the fundamental trust assumption is that no malicious mining collusion holds more than 50% of the hash power. If you can make this assumption, your security holds as long as you manage to obtain the most recent block with some frequency (usually at least every 6 blocks ~ 1 hour). Of course, if someone manages to MITM attack you, they can mine blocks and feed them to you in order to double spend on you, for example. One way to accomplish this would be to engineer an Eclipse attack [1].

However, as long as you have any source for the most recent block that the MITM does not control, they cannot trick you into following a shorter chain. In other words, as long as any side-channel (malicious or otherwise) posts blocks, you can always follow the longest chain. The Blockstream Satellite [2] was created for this reason -- so that nodes always have a reliable side-channel separate from the bitcoin protocol to verify blocks coming from the bitcoin network. Alternatively, some nodes check Tor mirrors, which should be difficult for adversaries to control.

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/263.pdf
[2] https://blockstream.com/satellite/
broken IP law

Unfortunately I think they are working as intended.
People mainly use smart speakers for simple requests (2017)
"Hello, I am a HTTP client, can I have /some/super/secret/page?"
"200 OK, here it is"

That's your server complying with the request. Whether by intent or by oversight, doesn't matter: the client comes and asks, and your server can refuse. If it complies, well, you told it to. Whether you have merely exposed the page to the public or also shouted its URL from the rooftops, that's completely irrelevant. If it's not supposed to be public, don't make it public.

"Hello, I am a HTTP client, can I have /some/super/secret/page?"
"Oh, but you are ^User-agent$=.acebook ? Nope, 403 Forbidden, no data for you." (Or, more generally, "And who are you? 401 Authorize!" - or any other sort of mandatory access control)
Because everybody else is using FB for messaging? Network effect is a real thing.
GDPR couldn't be coming any sooner.
In my opinion death is simply explained by the human body not having reached it's final form yet. We are constantly evolving, but evolution has been concentrating on short term survival for a millenia. It's only recently, in evolutionary terms, that long term life has become viable. I would say our healing abilities point to the fact that we are evolving along this path, and that it is also an obtainable goal, just look at the immortal jellyfish.
To add to your comment is the interview of Trent Reznor and Saul Williams from 2007 [1].

Begin excerpt from said interview:

What do you think about OiNK being shut down?

Trent: I'll admit I had an account there and frequented it quite often. At the end of the day, what made OiNK a great place was that it was like the world's greatest record store. Pretty much anything you could ever imagine, it was there, and it was there in the format you wanted.

If OiNK cost anything, I would certainly have paid, but there isn't the equivalent of that in the retail space right now. iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up. I feel like I'm being hustled when I visit there, and I don't think their product is that great. DRM, low bit rate, etc.

Amazon has potential, but none of them get around the issue of pre-release leaks. And that's what's such a difficult puzzle at the moment. If your favorite band in the world has a leaked record out, do you listen to it or do you not listen to it?

People on those boards, they're grateful for the person that uploaded it — they're the hero. They're not stealing it because they're going to make money off of it; they're stealing it because they love the band. I'm not saying that I think OiNK is morally correct, but I do know that it existed because it filled a void of what people want.

Cease excerpt from said interview.

Flash forward 11 years and there still isn't a legal alternative to OiNK' Pink Palace (OPP) that can hold a candle to it. I love music, but the music that I love I can not find on any streaming service.

The bands I like are old enough that they are no longer touring or producing music and since I can not find any of their "old" songs on any (legal) streaming or downloading sites I am left with zero options to support the bands I personally like.

[1]: https://www.vulture.com/2007/10/trent_reznor_and_saul_willia...
Interesting, but quite infuriating use of the not-really-a-word "intransparent".
Section 7 of the paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04730) has a couple of examples.

In short, yes CuDNN is fast for the cases it was tuned for. It is probably faster on power-of-two sizes, but when you operate on a 26 x 1024954 x 3 tensor, TC can generate specialized code. Want 42 x 17 x 5? TC can generate differently specialized code. With almost no effort from the user (or performance engineers).

Can a performance expert do better job than TC optimizer? Very likely yes, but it will very likely take much more time.

TC is not a framework. It can be integrated with any framework of your liking.
Angel of the North: The icon that was nearly never built
https://www.buzzfeed.com/bradesposito/people-keep-finding-hi...
Fierce Warrior Ants Are the First Insects Ever Observed to Treat Their Soldiers
Word of the day: Praxeology
I had that same criticism in my head while reading the first half of the article that mainly discusses the energy use of the project. That criticism was dispelled in the second half where fundamental problems with fusion reactors are discussed.

This article will certainly not cause me to dismiss fusion as a potential energy source outright, but it makes it very clear that even with ITER up and running, we are nowhere near being able to use fusion for energy generation. [1]

To pick up your analogy: It took only 1-2 decades to get from the Wright brothers to commercial aircrafts. In that sense, ITER looks more akin to one of Da Vinci's flying machines.

[1] Which makes me wonder about the buzz about Lockheed-Martin's skunkworks fusion projects.
This is a "culture war" topic, let's prepare for the shitshow in the comments.

I'd like to offer some advice to make things go a bit more smoothly. There's a widespread view that all beliefs are political, you can't be apolitical, and anyone arguing for a belief opposing yours must be an enemy. To me, that view is pretty much a type error. Beliefs are value-neutral. Only arguments for or against beliefs can be political or not.

More specifically, some arguments are rational (based on evidence) while other arguments are political (based on who benefits and who loses). You can be a very civil person, but still reach for political arguments when defending your beliefs, and thus cause net harm. Or you can be a rude person, but drawn to arguing based on evidence, and thus cause net benefit. It's up to you.

Now go forth and make a flamewar :-)
Recently a wave of DDOS attacks hit the banks of the Netherlands. While the large Bank CEOs were on the news saying this was a professional, very possibly the Russians, Jelle M. from the small town of Oosterhout was caught and confessed that he had spend something like 50$ on some DDOS stress testing service. There is a very nice story on this [0], unfortunately it is in Dutch.

Yes, this is different but the ease with which the Russians are blamed seems to be very wide spread. Of course, we never get to see and investigate the evidence.

[0] https://tweakers.net/reviews/6031/een-ddoser-betrapt-hoe-de-...
Aviv Ovadya on impending information apocalypse
Spectre can be used to leak arbitrary memory from a process iirc. So, if you have a process with nothing interesting it should be fine.
Transferwise
The point is, it's their company and they get to decide their features, not you. They don't owe you any kind of explanation.
Could you explain the joke?

Why are all those billionaires (more specifically, Thiel, Andreessen, and Srinivasan) boosters of the book "Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State"? A book, which the article points out, "identified New Zealand as an ideal location for this new class of sovereign individuals".

If the joke depends on a shared set of libertarian beliefs, then doesn't that say something about the billionaires?

While the article does spend a lot of time talking about that rumor, it was part of a larger analysis which included the concept of "utopia", and the differences between the utopian dream of "Sovereign Individual", of Thiel ("a man with a particular understanding of what a utopia might look like, who did not believe, after all, in the compatibility of freedom and democracy"), and of Kiwis in general and of Māori more specifically ("any invocation of New Zealand as a utopia was a “giant red flag”, particularly to Māori like herself").
I'll be dammed. Opened the comments expecting a shit show and saw yours first. Thank you for brightening my day.
Lol, appreciate the patronising explanation, as if I'm some sort of idiot just waiting to find the road to Damascus.

I understand the technology perfectly well. I read the Cryptoassets book to try and undsetand exactly that: the value of them as 'assets'. I came away exceedingly underwhelmed.
There is a fundamental difference between copyright and patents: the field of content creators if infinite and no works will ever by identical, writing a great symphony or game does not prevent anybody in the future do write another; in stark contrast inventors deal with the limitations of the real world, with physics and technology, there are a limited number of good solutions to a given problem and a patent on an obvious and straightforward solution is a major hindrance to everybody else.

Further more, copyright is self funded, it's an ideal public policy choice if we want to promote positive externalities: the creator takes all the risk and costs of production, and monetizes his work on the free market, where it's bought only if it's any good, or ignored otherwise with no ill effect on anybody else. Someone else can freely create a cheaper work fulfilling the same human need, ensuring perfect competition.

Patents are not self funded, inventors are not required to put the invention to work and demonstrate it in the market, rather, the patent is issued by merely presenting a description of the invention to the government, without proving any investment or development effort. If such patents with zero creative investment are issued, they are a major negative externality to everybody working in the same field, who now have to work around or pay rent for a solution that would be obvious or result after basic R&D activities. In effect, the combined rent they extract from society is a tax that funds "inventors" to "disclose" more and more such ideas of limited value that block technological progress.

I do agree copyright terms are absurdly long, way past the point where there is zero practical benefit for society: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16361159
TactoTek is announces $23M (18.5M) in funding
Nice! We've been demoing this one at YC dinners a lot. People always enjoy this one. Always funny to see people's reactions when their origami floats away, and we need to teach them how to reset it.
What an absolute disaster spectre has been, and what a shame it is that intel won't be punished for it
"By using frameworks you're hand-balling the task of "making it better" to someone else"

You sound a bit ambivalent about whether this is a good thing or not.

I would guess most hand-rolled alternatives don't have a long list of well documented browser bugs they couldn't work around and don't have half the workarounds for things they could handle. Instead they'll just silently break since they don't have the QA exposure across obscure platforms that Bootstrap does as a massively popular open source project:

https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/browser-bugs/

I would guess Grid has just as many issues, and would guess that Bootstrap will adopt it at roughly the time it becomes supported by a wide range of browsers, and will have implemented and tested workarounds for any lingering issues with it.

Bootstrap seems to tickle the same "I could write Dropbox over a weekend" response that Hacker News commenters are famous for, just from those with a slightly different technical skill set.
How TypeScript leveraged ES5 and fixed ES6 messed up design
I would just do what I already do. Look carefully at each apartment to see if it could have a nice view. I judge it by the photos, the description, customer reviews and Google street view.

Only apartments that might have a nice view go into my list.

I wonder if anybody else is interested in that list and if it would make an interesting website.
>> Third, it's a file storage. This is the most overlooked part, unfortunately.

When gmail first launched I remember it having such relatively high storage space that my friends and I used it extensively as a music sharing/storage system. An mp3 was just small enough to make it a comfortable email attachment and the storage space was great in an age without infinite cloud hosts.

Huge amounts of gmail's early utility to me was simply the file storage. Lots of people would give you a free email address. Google made a big deal out of the massive space they offered.
ITER is a research project. As with all research, its main purpose is discovery of "incidental knowledge" , i.e. things you did not set out to research, but are important to know for future projects in the direction. ITER has between 1000 and 5000 highly qualified workers and scientists on site. The experience these people gain during the project can hardly be expressed in USD.

Furthermore, many companies gain experience in manufacturing parts for ITER - experience that might be useful for other projects in the future too.

Lastly, many different players collaborate in ITER so the whole of things is also a management experiment.
Best Work from Home Memes
One of the arguments that ad companies employ to justify their tracking activities is that current ads are not customized enough. It goes like this: hey, do you remember the time when the ads we showed you were so obviously hilariously off the mark? We admit that this is a glaring failure on our part and we would very much like to correct it. To do it we need even more personal information from you! Only then we will be able to show you the ads that are ideally aligned to your interests and needs.

I'd say this is total bullshit. The incentives are just fundamentally misaligned. Perfectly customized ads will just perfectly employ your hidden biases to trick you into buying things you don't need.
I have a Xiaomi. And given the choice I prefer being spied upon by the chinese... Rather than the Yankees.
Can Artificial Intelligence be biased? The issues are not just black and white
This is brilliant! Person who made this: thank you!

Would it be possible to make this available for translation into other languages, as a community project (all hosted in the same place)? This would be awesome for high school physics in any language.

FYI, I think I spotted a tiny mistake:

"Try adjusting the convergence slider to see how the phase of a waveform affects how loud the resulting wave is."

I think this paragraph should say "phase slider"?
it is called artificial intelligence so yes these are artful artefacts
> [...] iOS [...]

> [...] Google infecting the market with proprietary stuff.

You know that Apple's iOS is proprietary while Google's AOSP is open-source? As others have pointed out: AOSP + F-Droid + DAVdroid is the way to go.
Hackers stole millions from cryptocurrency wallets  using Poison Google Ads
Sure, it is one of the works we cite. It seems to be mostly targeted at sparse computations and does not have GPU support.

Tensor Comprehensions does not try to manage memory and thus can be integrated into DL frameworks easily.
> How long can he really expect to survive there and with what quality of life if Armageddon happens?

And the answer to that question is, longer and with a better quality (and guarantee) of life than in Silicon Valley.
If you look at Ponzi schemes or con artistry, a little skepticism and a little peer pressure help part people from their money.

In fact, if you're at all familiar with con, the best marks are the people who think they'll never be a mark and have a little bit of greed in them.
If one is reading mail, a good quality MUA will not be "loading a GIF from a server" in the first place. The content to show should be all right there in the message to start with, included using multipart/, or it does not get shown.

* http://jdebp.eu./Proposals/gnksoa-mua.html#NoAutoFetchExtern...
CoAP (Constrained Application Protocol) Over TCP, TLS, and WebSockets
> Any rational explanation?

One person does it, then other does, and then everyone else with the means does it too because they've all got more money than they'd ever need, so why not hedge against an apocalypse.
I think people will always be scared of losing their job or their way of life changing.. so coming up with reasons why somebody who is different from you is somehow not as good at what you do, is a comforting path to go down for many people. It will be a battle between people that don't want things to change and the people who want to see things change. I do think that when anybody says "hey ya know you should just be happy about more women or minorities or whatever being helped to get into your field, or "you can't complain you've had a bunch of advantages to get where you are.." I do think that causes a bunch of push-back from people who do have a reasonable basis to say that whatever advantage they may have had may also have been tiny or in their case non-existent or whatever. So I do hope the narrative does eventually shift toward something more constructive like saying lets support women and minorities getting into the STEM area, but should also help to remove from the discourse statements that undermine the hard work that the men did to get into these challenging fields. If somebody makes a statement like "and you look at this math department and they are all men.. clearly something is going on.." that is implying that those men don't deserve to be there, which obviously creates a very negative situation for everybody involved both the men and the women seeking to be in those fields that historically have large percentages of men.
> I can see some utility in blockchains. However, my main point is that the economics of them make them terrible for 99.99% of problems.

Then we're talking about different things. My comment was specifically in response to "Internet was a solution searching for a problem".

Your point actually supports my comment because like you said it's terrible for 99.99% of problems, which means it may be great for 0.01%, which means it's a solution that's solving only a small problem for now, and looking for more problems.
The video is great! It successfully avoids the usual Kickstarter kliches (Silicon Valley guitars, etc) while clearly explaining the product in a down-to-earth fashion. I love the tongue-in-cheek humor as well :)
Your first two sentences seem like a circular argument. Women can't get the high paying jobs because they don't live in the right places, they can't live in the right places because they can't get the high paying jobs.
Hahahaha sexism if they don't offer reomte jobs?? You're a loonie!!
I was talking about logos, sorry for the confusion. Of course you do not need a license to use the system font on a particular system.

But I think that arguing that now we can't use San Francisco font on iOS for anything is a good example of a slippery slope fallacy. I think Apple's move on the emoji usage is a mistake and I suppose they will backpedal on this. However I do think that it is not comparable.
Agreed. But its not even my account. I have similar things happening to me, except those messages are linked to my google voice number with someone else's account. One click and I am able to login.
I had to block that number from receiving facebook updates.
it’s fine and valid to research whether people encounter improper bias in their careers, which is clearly often the case. But their discussion is incomplete without at least recognition of another possible partial cause of gender disparity in tech, the fact that many sexist anti-STEM cues are given to children at a much earlier stage, way before careers are even on the horizon. These cues are delivered by parents, teachers, parents of friends, other adults, and other children. Cues can be as subtle as a wide-eyed look while reacting to the news that Sally wants to be a programmer, where Joey gets no such wide eyes for the same news. Any study that overlooks that cause, in order to focus only on the causes highlighted in recent dramatic episodes, is an example of the phenomenon mentioned in the title of the book their chapter appears in: Groupthink.
I'd love to read equivalent commentary about the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works Compact Fusion project. https://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.ht...

If Compact Fusion is crank science, why is it on Lockheed's website? Potential Applications:

safe power for safe seas
planes with unlimited range and unmatched endurance
power a city of 50,000 people
speed up space travel

Etc. Is that just bullshit to make shareholders feel better? Or are there realistic alternatives to grandiose megaprojects like ITER?
Secure Telephone Identity Credentials: Certificates
> click the “hide stuff like this” option

I've clicked that button for plenty of sponsored links and hit "unfollow" for people I no longer seek input from. But there are hundreds more where they came from.

This is perhaps viable, like transparently maintaining multiple sets of subscribers to different types of posts is an option. Although the mental overhead of maintaining these sets, and the risk of addressing the wrong crowd, are both too big for me.

My current method of keeping an address book in a spreadsheet, and an active, short list of people that I wish to see, has, however, beat social media when it comes to intimacy and not wasting time.
I came to a similar conclusion, the numbers are skewed and don't really add up, though admittedly I have a limited exposure to the pantyhose market.

Juicero was VC backed, funding sometimes is not a good proxy to go by. Nevertheless, good luck to them.
I thought for Intel processors it leaked across all processes, including outside user-space.

Or was that meltdown?
PASSporT: Personal Assertion Token
I wonder what they're policy is on adult. I do some work on an adult site and ccbill has got to be the worst credit card provider out there. Adult payments need to be disrupted.
Authenticated Identity Management in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
Portable Laptop Lap Desk
"A fragmented walled garden ecosystem" has also been a fair description of Internet electronic mail for quite a while, however. It was Balkanized years ago.