skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone made a blockchain for sharing text, like a decentralized WikiLeaks, BitBin anybody?
I think it would be amazing if there were also able to stick a GB or two of HBM onto the same chip as kind of a L4 cache / VRAM for the GPU. Performance would be amazing, especially considering that Zen's performance gets better with RAM speed and GPUs are almost entirely RAM starved.
I understand the trade off a little better now. Thanks. It leads me to a follow up question - is this universally true of all blockchain implementations or is it due to the structure of cryptocurrency (mining, etc.)?
Ah, that leads me to the https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block which can certainly be interpreted as indication of political intent from Satoshi. Are there any others?
According to GT that reads:

"Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth. Since the end of the Cold War, only China has narrowed its gap with the United States in terms of economic scale."
Yes, there are a lot of trusted intermediaries if you live in the US, Europe, or otherwise sufficiently developed countries. However, there are few if any truly trusted intermediaries in the developing world (and countries that have regressed significantly), including India, Venezuela, Zimbabwe.

Perhaps blockchain is superior to a trusted intermediary, perhaps not. But it isn't gonna take off in the developed world until it proves its utility in the undeveloped world.
The Barabary Pirates wasn't really a paternalist imperial action - the Pirates had a better navy than we did and were enslaving our sailors when they caught our ships, so it's funny that you talk about fetters for others.
True, true. As I mentioned below, in my case, it was even usernames, just entering you email for a free gift card. The attacker actually used dots with a gmail address.
I recommend the rue de Maubeuge. It's just miserable, always a few crackheads hanging around and dealing or whatever. In one article [0], I read that the police deliberately don't act there. The videosurveillance is broken atm anyways.

Maybe the nurses and the psychological aid they can freely ask for in the shooting room will save these poor souls so we don't need the police to intervene. But I go by everyday and there's no diminution.

[0] https://www.streetpress.com/sujet/1463153023-drogue-paris-cr...
Have you tried mobx with react? For me it looks like a good solution without much boilerplate.
Also, for simple forms you can just store state as component state and then passit along at submit.
> The ONLY way Assange’s actions make sense is if he expects to be found guilty in Sweden.

Or in the US, where there was (still is?) an active criminal investigation of Wikileaks for publishing government secrets.
What's the word cloud generator you're using?
I'm a white guy that prefers not to travel through the inner city, because of what might happen to me there. Let's stop pretending that this is a one-way street.
And yet the proper way to handle monetary values has always been to operate on integer values with a predetermined precision.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3730019/why-not-use-doub...

I can understand the convenience if you are setting up a simple online store, but more complicated cases (like the one in your example) absolutely need a proper handling of decimal values.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16333550
> I travel to be integrated into the communities in which I am traveling, not to hang out with other travelers.

Same here, and it seems there are very few businesses catering to us. Unfortunately, I think we are in the minority so that won't likely change soon.

Any advice on easing the stress of finding the next place? We use skyscanner to find cheap flights from where we are, Craig's List a ton, and then random searches online for 'furnished apartments {destination}".
Ahh! I have been using Keepass Droid, since I was using Keepass v1 files. For a long time Ubuntu LTS didn't have a good v2 client. A while back I upgraded my database to v2 on Ubuntu but stuck with KP Droid on Android. Maybe time to change app, thanks.
Remember that this is the desktop APU, with 65W TDP. On the article they mentioned that AMD doesn't have any plan on the laptop APU.

Edit: oops, they released the laptop APU earlier, like ryzen 7 2700U.
Apparently a Stokes mortar. To be honest, with enough rust I probably wouldn't have recognised it as that either. But doesn't mean it's wise to transport that in your car.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes_mortar
I see a point in trustless records of ownership. There is already a market for it in things like shipping, where transporting container ownership claims (a few pieces of paper) is more expensive than transporting the containers themselves.

There is also a huge potential in corruption rich governments, where proof of ownership can suddenly disappear. Though implementation may be hard. :)

Even in non (or ver little) corrupt countries like my own I see a point. Not so much because we need it right now, but because we might need it in the future.

Why wouldn’t you build your anti-corruption government tech while you have the chance because your political leadership and the bureaucrats aren’t yet going to have a vested interest in stopping it?

Maybe that’s a little pessimistic, and it’s certainly not how you should sell it, but it’s not like our current record keeping tech couldn’t need an overhaul anyway because it’s really, really, awful. Adding Blockchain tech to make it trustless wouldn’t be cost-inefficient if you’re down under the hood anyway.
There are restricted woods in France still full of unexploded explosives from WW1[0]. It's a huge problem more or less all around Europe.

0. https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-i/this-red-zone-i...
I agree with you on the term sanctuary city being strategic. I think these phrases get under my skin because we just parrot back what we hear on CNN/NPR/Daily Wire, without adding anything new to the conversation.

I'm not sure I could disagree with you more on a lot of what you said, but it doesn't grind any gears to read your opinion because I doubt you copy/pasted that from a VICE article. I really think you've thought about that, and that is your opinion. It does worry me that there doesn't seem to be any common ground though.
lock that firmware on your micro controller(s) up, simple peripheral, write it right the first time.
i really doubt it. in a mining rig all power spent on components other than the GPU is essentially pure overhead that cuts into the thin margin of a consumer setup. you need several discrete GPUs before it starts to be worthwhile at all.
Neither `BigDecimal` in Ruby or `Decimal` in Python are quite what I'd expect for "arbitrary-precision".

From the docs for [`BigDecimal`](http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/bigdecimal/rdoc/BigD...):

> Ruby provides built-in support for arbitrary precision integer arithmetic. For example:
>
> 4213 -> 1265437718438866624512
>
> BigDecimal provides similar support for very large or very accurate floating point numbers.

My takeaway from the above is that, if arbitrary precision is needed, you should still just use integers. Tho, in practice, it may not be significant.
I am the security researcher that reported this issue to GitLab. There is more to the issue than is described in GitLab's security advisory and it was definitely a design flaw on GitLab's part. Hopefully, more details will be published soon.
So the only advantage of the TPU is it's a simpler and more specialized asic? Google didn't break any new ground in terms of training perf?
GP didn't say it's impossible, he said it's not worth the trouble which is an opinion statement that can't be countered with "yes it is".
> So we will inevitably end up with some variation of Proof of Stake protocol – where we will simply have to trust some users more than others

Doesn't this defeat the point? I can't imagine a scenario in which a proof of stake system does not become centralized. The average person will want to stake the extra money they have but won't want to maintain a dedicated machine with adequate storage and zero downtime. They will entrust a third party to earn money by staking on their behalf. Thus, you have created a centralized system with a whole bunch of extra complication.
Arbitrary command execution in the removable device notifier
You weren't talking about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Sync - I guess not. I think the sibling poster cleared it up though, the app I'm using is pretty old and doesn't integrate well any more in Android, there's a newer Keepass app that works with Drive natively.
> making usernames case-insensitive would be a massive backwards-compatibility break and nobody’s sure whether or how we could actually do it.

Couldn’t you store an upcase version of the username that is unique for this? You would still keep both columns so you have the upcase version for uniqueness and the original column for display name. This would also be backward compatible.
I think 'farcical' appeared in the rear-view mirror years ago. The word that springs to my mind more closely resembles 'Dreyfus'.

Another alternative (to a coffin) is the expiration of the statute of limitations on the charges against Assange. Britain may choose to refile/renew them indefinitely, but it now appears that they'll do so alone, without collaboration from Sweden. I think eventually the political odor of this will sufficiently embarrass the Brit electorate and the CPS' charges will finally expire, with more whimper than bang.
>tiny occupied islands (Guam)

Guam is a territory (second class citizen like Puerto Rico in some ways) . Having lived there for two years (about a decade ago) there is/was a interesting generational dichotomy. The WW2 survivors and their children are generally very happy to be part of the USA as they were liberated from Japanese. The younger generations see: a third of the land off limits for military bases, housing prices being driven by generous military overseas housing allowances, and an influx of young (mostly male) service members affecting competition a dating pool already affected by being the equivalent of Hawaii for Japanese tourist, and don't have as pro USA opinion.

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Excellent point. Still, we know that there is not more than a certain number; versus with gold there could be more or less than any estimate.
Most of the North Sea and Baltic Sea are have been cleared but some areas remain full of mines. And there's no real desire to clean those up if it's in areas shipping/fishing doesn't use. Makes it harder for other nations to hide submarines in case of a future conflict.
You can still buy your own domain and get as many new email addresses which pass your test as you want. So you probably need another solution to your problem.

What I noticed what several (large) services these days do, is ask for your credit card number on signup (even if they promise not to bill you).
> Also: Assange's fear was not to be extradited from the UK to the USA but from Sweden. Whether that is realistic or not is another matter entirely but there is some precedent.

If he's extradited from the UK to Sweden, they then they UK consent to a further extradition from Sweden, and he can fight extradition in both the UK and Sweden. (Unless, of course, they go for an "extraordinary" extradition, which seems unlikely in such a high-profile case.)
I think that the area where you want fault-tolerance the most is decentralized cash. If you are going to take control of your money you better do it in a fault-tolerant system. Many people don't care about it today but there are those who do. That's why cryptocurrency is the real killer app for blockchain, like it or not.

To your comments re bitcoin, it sounds to me like somebody complaining that Internet is slow back in the 90s/00s.

EDIT:

I am not pontificating in favor of bitcoin. It's just that the technology is still immature but there is a lot of great and promising work happening today.
«Modern settlement and clearing is efficient»

Bitcoin isn't meant to be efficient. It's meant to solve problems that (Satoshi believes) are vastly more important: decentralization, trustlessness, & inflation.

«The blockchain got distracted by finance.»

Payments are the perfect application found, so far, for the blockchain.
If one could remove the need for trust with no other costs, sure, why not? But in practice, using something shaped like bitcoin asks for very hard things: The financial system started with very little trust, but it expanded because trust solved problems, like money being stolen on route, an associate running away and leaving and bank runs. Trust makes those problems mostly go away. Bitcoin has digital equivalents: 51% attacks, someone duplicating a private key, someone losing their private key and the money disappearing, exchanges becoming insolvent, getting hacked, or downright stealing, low transaction throughput, high costs per transaction, and high volatility. If you study the history of banking and finance, the blockchain is in 1700-1800 or so, and we solved those problems through more trust and faster communication. Our best solutions to both the blockchain and old finance problems? More trust, as it lowered overall risk. We can't just improve the fact that the current system requires a lot of trust with a new system that just happens to still need trust to work efficiently.

Now, maybe we'll solve those problems in ways that don't requite more trust, but until then, cryptocurrencies will we far riskier than the existing financial system.
But that’s the equivalent of then going to silver or using an entirely different element isn’t it?
An upgrade script can find collisions and report them before you upgrade. You’ll be required to resolve those before enabling case insensitive user names.
I studied the source of the bitcoin blockchain a couple of years ago when the whole "blockchain will change the world" movement began. Although I really liked the elegance of the blockchain, I never understood what the blockchain would solve in a real-world application.

How I see it: blockchaining is an arms race in computing power. In order to sufficiently 'secure' your chain you need to spend more value (electricity) than an attacker is willing (or capable) of spending. This makes blockchains very expensive, slow and an environmental disaster.

Unless a blockchain has tremendous value (like cryptocurrencies currenly have) there is no way to sustain them.
If you're serious about this, consider running UUCP as the mail transport. It can be tunneled through SSH easily (or have TLS applied to it with something like stunnel), allows either end to initiate a transfer of data (assuming open ports), handles dynamic network addresses easily, and will likely be a much smaller drain on mobile phone batteries.

Plus it can allow sending and receiving of email and files, if you so choose.
Interestingly, GCP now appears to be available to individuals in Europe. It wasn't like that before, no idea when that policy got changed. Before, GCP wasn't even a consideration compared to AWS (which always handled that).
I realize that.
What I'm trying to say is that I like to create 'john.doe+projectA@example.com' and 'john.doe+projectB@example.com' accounts with some services.

Checking for the existence of any 'john.doe@example.com'-like accounts would mean I have to register an entirely separate email account or set up (another) email forwarder/alias.
We've been automating middlemen away for years, don't see whats different here?

Blockchain lets us do some stuff now that was impossible before (single ownership of digital assets jumps out), but a big chunk of the economic benefit is going to come from reduced transaction costs.
What is your visa status? H1B is oversubscribed and companies who sponsor candidates need to wait over a year until the person can start. You'd be more attractive if you're either an internal transfer within a larger company (L1B visa), hold a patent (can't remember the visa type, basically high achiever) or already have a greencard (e.g. via yearly greencard lottery).
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> Kinda tiring to see this gets rehashed on every thread mentioning MS in any positive light.

This thread was on a major change in the relationship between Microsoft and Linux. But comments were focused on the short-term impact on individual developers. Pointing out longer-term ecosystem impact seemed worthwhile.

> Kinda tiring to see this gets rehashed [... Microsoft has changed ...]

I encounter two versions of this sentiment. One is "yes, it's unfortunate that our only choice is to pay organized crime to collect our trash, but I don't want to discuss that every time we put out the trash" (to use an example from NYC of a few decades ago). And as long that doesn't drift into "organized crime isn't a problem", fine.

The other version is "Microsoft's conduct is no longer something to be concerned about". And if one knows that pharma, IBM, and Microsoft, are the current leaders in expanding the scope of software patents, and blocking patent reforms, and one agrees with those positions, then, well, ok. But often there isn't that awareness. Or other impacts are not fully appreciated, or not clearly reasoned about.

We're way off the front page, and my break is short, so for the rest, I'll just note that linux is unlikely to ever work as well as windows on Azure, and MS has a strong incentive to diminish linux and Mac as a competing centers of gravity for software developers. For instance, developers being able to easily avoid Microsoft products while developing and serving android and iOS, is something Microsoft would obviously like to change. And specifically, Microsoft will do whatever it takes, to not miss VR/AR as it did phones. And would really prefer to dominate VR/AR as it does desktop/laptop.
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Admittedly my experience has been "door to door" where door 1 is within half an hour's travel of Kings Cross, and door 2 is a hotel in downtown Paris / Brussels. So the differences between "downtown to downtown" and "door to door" times are minor.
In this regard, it is similar to how natural sciences are done. The hyperparameter space of possible experiments is immense, they are expensive, so one has to go with intuition and luck. Reporting this is difficult.

[edit:] In this analogy, deep learning currently misses any sort of a general theory (in the sense of theories explaining experiments).
Start spending time in the US. It's not clear whether you desire to stay in Germany while working remotely or whether you want to work onsite in the US. Disregard the rest of this if you desire the remote option.

Some companies will be far more likely to sponsor you if you're able to interview in person. Given that tourist visas require you to state on the record that you're not here to work (or perhaps even seek work) that might become complicated.

Consider using Canada as a go-between, as they have less bureaucratic red tape, and establishing residency while German is easier.
It also does not seem to have any unique insight. I feel like I've read this set of opinions every time bitcoin values changes rapidly.
SQLite can probably handle a lot of SELECT queries at once, but only one process can be writing to the database at once.

I think it's a hard question to answer, "what's the upper limit on SQLite?"

Better question would probably be, "We have this app, what database should I use?"

I use SQLite for a lot of smaller apps. Applications that have a focus on single-business, low-volume use.

They might do a good amount of computation and data-fetching, but they don't make heavy use of the database.

If you need features Postgres has, use that. If you need features MS SQL has, use that... if you don't need anything special, think about using SQLite :)
This. Replacing the term "intermediary" with the term "institution" is an exercise worthwhile. For one will realize that institutions serve various important social functions that go far beyond middleman style profit and rent skimming.

Proponents of blockchain revolutions need to come to terms with existing institutions, working with them rather than against.
... and a good way to scam people.

Do we have a list of successful, not-scam-y ICOs, where the investors/crowd funders actually got what they wanted in the end? (And I don't mean the tokens, but rather the thing that was crowdfunded).
I'm aware of it, nice project, but 2.6MB + in memory only storage, no thanks.
Oh, you mean building with discretion.
Rarely. Some weekend flights are cheap but otherwise it tends to be at least £50 more for a city flight. One-way journeys to heathrow and Gatwick both cost less than £10 (compared with £1.5-£2.6 for city) so that this doesn't really make a difference.
I have no recollection of anything, I just wanted to share it to reddit and I realized it was already done long ago 4 times, one of the submissions by myself u_u
Why is it that you can never joke on here? Literally EVERY SINGLE ONE of unserious posts I made on here got downvoted.

If people here are really that "dry"... I might consider not commenting on here anymore and slowly begin to leave. :/
A link to info about SELinux? It's a rather broad topic, you'll probably be better served to google for what ever aspect of it you're interested in but it's definitely in Redhat (even turned on by default [1]) and it's on Debian (not sure if it's on by default there).

[1] https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3176 <--- here they show how to turn it off because it's in enforcing mode by default.
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Having had the chance to attend a fireside chat with leadership from Google and SAP, I get the sense that the hype is likely to hold up. There are a lot of big bets happening in the Enterprise space around this notion of efficient, easy to implement ML.
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Why in the world is someone downvoting me for asking questions?
Which is probably way more expensive than almost correctly predicting, and making up for the inaccuracy by underpromising and overdelivering :)
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