skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
21 block producers are acting as the hosts of the network. They build, maintain and pay all server costs for all time. If a BP fails to do his or her job, they're replaced by vote.

In return they're entitled to be paid from network inflation. A rate which is agreed on by vote and divide up amongst the 21.

The users receive a decentralized network, free of any costs to transact (no fees) and infinitely scalable.
> ...if something costs the company money they will pass those costs onto the consumer...

They don’t have to do that, though.
... and systemd timedated and systemd's idiosyncratic process #1 API. Its own doco also states that it targets systemd and does not implement use of other APIs.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16448768
> Then can you explain the economic utility that bitcoin provides because it is more innificient way to store and exchange "value" than what banks provide?

Let me ask you back. Can you prove with 100% certainty that banks are more "efficient" than bitcoin? What does "efficient" even mean? Did you take into account all the jobs required to run the banks? Did you take into account all the energy these bank employees consume? Did you take into account all the side industries that arise around banking system? Did you take into account all the corruption that took place over and over and over throughout history that eventually took everything down to zero? This question is really meaningless when you consider all these factors.

People tend to arrogantly think that they understand the world when they don't. All they do is try their best to make sense of things, and even with these scientific theories, nothing is absolute. Note that I'm not calling YOU arrogant. I'm calling humans as a whole.

I am not saying PoW is better. I'm saying people who think PoS is absolutely better than PoW are leaving a lot of things out of the picture when they draw that conclusion. Nobody knows what's better or what's more efficient. Maybe banking IS more efficient, but maybe in the long term (as in 100 years) it may be more inefficient. (History shows that there's A LOT of invisible inefficiency in the banking system, manifested as economic depressions)
> So less than 50%,

Just a little less than 50% have less than two providers. Two is far short of "many".

> and qualified with a specific speed minimum which is...

...exactly the current regulatory minimum downstream speed of broadband (which is the domain to which net neutrality applied), and, per the current, anti-neutrality FCC, met by the majority of home wireline connections. [0]

[0] https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/305578/fcc-pr...
I get what you're saying but let me rephrase my question:

If the problem you're solving is for people who aren't easily reachable and even if you did reach them, they aren't willing to use your tech because it is new (a kind of chicken-egg problem), what would be your approach?

Would you move-on just because you can't find the right people with connections?
Do any US banks actually let users initiate ACH payments to other individuals? As far as I know, my bank does not (USAA).
Sounds like an oligarchy rather than a decentralized system.
What if I told you I already understand everything you just said?

I think I answered your last question elsewhere in this thread, if you're genuinely curious, read that one.
I've seen this model used at collectorz.com - you buy the software, and it comes with one year of updates. When that year expires, you are basically frozen at the last version of the software, or you can choose to buy an additional year of support for about half the cost of the initial purchase. Seems to be a reasonable compromise to me.
Maybe? All this code did was call another lambda function and return a 204.
Efficient? Maybe, you can still have inefficient hardware. The hardware dedicated to HDCP encryption is single purpose, just like a Bitcoin miner. I'd expect the Bitcoin hardware is far more tuned for efficiency than most hardware HDCP circuits since power usage is the major cost of owning a miner in the longterm.

I'm not aware of any actual metrics and like I originally said I'm pretty sure bitcoin mining still uses more energy.
Isn't there a cost in dPoS due to the voting system? People have an incentive to pay a significant amount of money (or time, which is equivalent to money in opportunity costs) to get themselves voted in. All that work is effectively wasted. This is actually addressed in the article: http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/#money-and-polit...

Not to mention that you have to pay the delegates more than their actual costs as you have to pay them a premium to prevent them from cheating.

Also, the voting under dPoS is fraught will all sorts of worries (imagine sockpuppets and all sorts of fake news).
The GPU manufacturers aren't actually making that much more money AFAIK. They apparently have a lot of contracts with suppliers that have fixed pricing. Sure, demand is increasing, and the manufacturers are selling pretty much every new card they make, but until they increase production they aren't making that much more money. Increasing production takes a fair amount of time and money, and with the volatility of the cryptocurrency market it seems like a risky investment.

You can see the effects of this: Nvidia is selling their GPUs at close to MSRP on their website with a set limit on the amount you can buy per customer. If they're making bank on cryptocurrency mining why would they hurt their sales by doing that? To me that move only makes sense if Nvidia wouldn't be making a lot of money otherwise and highly valued their current gaming customers.
> But who's fault is that really?

Fault is irrelevant to the falsity of the claim that broadband providers that have been covered by net neutrality cannot, with the repeal of those rules, effectively censor content because customers have a choice of many such providers.

Whoever's fault it is, the fact is that most customers do not have a choice of many providers.
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Now this is a cool article. It's funny and ironic that an article uses slang while talking about how old languages acquired other phrases from other languages, calques.

I do wish future articles take note how adding humor to an article shows a level of care and understanding about the subject/ideas.
It is handled by supervised training with paired translations, so that English apple will be associated with French pomme instead of other fruits. If you don't have a parallel corpus, translation gets significantly harder. I'm actually more amazed that it's possible at all.
Depends on your use case.

My team needed to do some data transformations and setting up s3 put event triggered lambda jobs that pulled the date and transformed it for our data warehouse was so easy to implement it was ridiculous.
You know, I'm not all that sad they lock down an account for peddling misinformation. But if they go this route, I would hope they go this route whole hog. Are they going to go after everyone who spouts off the wall exaggerations?

Will they go after people who make unconfirmed claims against pols like Obama and Trump? Or will they only go after people they don't like?
Wow, this is meta.
You would think so but in fact it's proveably more decentralized than any current crypto.

The arms race in crypto mining has led to an impossibility of solo-mining. Miners now join a pool or will never see a dime for their efforts. Overtime smaller pools dwindle and merge or die out until only a few survive.

Believe it or not bitcoin has less than 10 pools controlling the network - which is highly concerning due to a possibility of a 51% attack and ethereum is no different.
Not parent but AFAIK Lightning Network requires transactions to be non malleable, i.e. the txid needs be signed together with the rest of the transaction.

Without a solution like segwit, miners can change the transaction ID and undermine layer 2 like the Lightning Network.
I wonder, is occitan not related to occident and orient? and oil, well, that's norse for beer, remember where normandy has it's name from? That doesn't explain yes, no; but eu, as in euphemism might[1]. Heureka! In other news, what does si in greek letters look like? "σι"! Pretty close to oi nowadays and Celtic druids are speculated to have visited Greece. That doesn't invalidate the "this there" story, but maybe precedes it.

The disdain for Slavik in the article is confirming a slight bias.

[1]: also europe, eukaryote, oi-punk, Euler. Well, almost. "arobe" means harbor (ger. Heimathaven?) in some European language but I CBA to look up which it was or how it's written, right now.
Microsoft Q# Programming Introduction for Quantum Computing
True, one option for everyone who thinks equity distribution is out of whack, is to start their own company. They can then create an imbalance in their own favor, allocating the lion's share for themselves. Then they can work to convince eager candidates to join their noble mission in exchange for a (razor-thin, shhh) piece of the pie.

Another route would be for founders to expand option pools from the typical 8-12%, so that their own holding didn't exceed that of every employee combined. But of course, why would any founder choose to do that? It's hard to become a billionaire if you let your employees have too much!
I'm not sure that's a pendulum, there is a long shaft that lengthens and shortens based on temperature. It actually moves vertically and even then by getting longer and shorter. This winds the clock and may set the daily cadence.
Why Not Monorail? (2000)
I just suggested greek "eu" for oi in another comment. Close enough in my book.
dbus-broker is in fact more specific than that. It does not function on all Linux operating systems, only the systemd ones.

It too, like Cockpit here (as shown at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16448768), talks directly to the idiosyncratic systemd process #1 API (rather than, say, using the "service" command to start services on demand).

* https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker/blob/07e43501e418c8066c7...
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16448768 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16451862 .
Out in the West Texas town of El Paso...
Are you posting your opinion for Grant money? Or are there other things that motivate people to think about things and express their opinion?

There is no need to disparage people who geek out about edge cases in classification systems.
Of course it does. Just because they already have the advantage doesn't mean we should forfeit the game. (That's a metaphor, this is actually much more serious than a game)

Comcast already refused to make infrastructure upgrades so that customers (who were paying Comcast) could get the services they wanted (Netflix). If net neutrality protections are removed, they could just throttle them out of existence.

I, as a one man web dev shop, run about 20 or so websites. Some are info sites, some are SaaS, some are just hobbies. Comcast won't throttle traffic to me because they don't care about someone as small as me -- but if Comcast and all the other ISPs start offering "fast lane service" for cheaper prices that give prime service to big places like Facebook/etc (who can afford to pay the ISPs kickbacks), and degraded or "normal" service to everyone else (me), then I am harmed just the same.
Interesting notes about Latin. I always learned that Latin didn't have a direct analogue to "yes," with the closest thing being "ita vero"[1] (not just "ita"). But "sic" makes sense in many contexts.

[1]: "thus it is so," or "it is true," or "and how!".
It's not dishonest. It's also common in the industry to even sign a NDA to not disclose what company you're working for. Just don't use it to hint that you work for a big company which you're not in.
No, the article is wrong.

The large weight simply powers the clock by gravity. The blowtorch part of the video shows the triple-sided chain attached to the weight.

Visitors to the block will wind up the weight in order to hear the chimes. The clock chimes once per day, and a mechanical computer varies the chime such that it is different each day for the full 10,000 years. If it's not wound, the chimes are silent.

The time-keeping function of the clock is much smaller and can run for a long time without anyone winding the clock. The idea is that even if there is a serious calamity, the clock will continue to keep time until it's found again and wound by visitors.
There's been a lot of discussion regarding this point about buying votes in the eos community. The consensus is that it's a zero sum game. If you're interested in learning more I'd suggest checking out the white paper as I doubt I can do this argument justice.
Does a towel stop the wifi-based attacks?
Marx called it "Bonapartism" (after Napoleon), certainly if the authority truly centered upon one leader. He wasn't for it, to say the least.
I think their website [1] has more detail but this article mentions the ceramic bearings.

[1]: http://longnow.org/clock/
> The problem is that the user experience for client-side encryption is awful! Every shared folder will need its own key, and users would need to manage and share their keys outside of our system. That is not sustainable.

But then the major feature set breaks down. Want to access your files in a browser? Not with client-side encryption. Want to email someone a hyperlink to a file? Not with client side encryption.

I do all of this with Boxcryptor. I might be misunderstanding you - do you mean decrypt it without first downloading it from the browser? Because yes, that’s not strictly possible.

But Boxcryptor implements a small wrapper around directories and generates a public/private key pair tied to email addresses. You can client-side encrypt a file with your - or anyone else’s - public key by moving the file into the directory. You can also change the file’s encryption to add or revoke access by multiple users.

If you wrap Boxcryptor around your local Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, etc. directory, it automatically client-side encrypts, then uploads new files. Then you can share a hyperlink to share encrypted files without exchanging keys with anyone. The usability is so great I’ve been able to use this with non-technical clients. You can even use your own key pairs.
I’ve considered buying Spotify but I am unsure of future growth or long term profits. What do you see?
Not through ACH, but through a bank owned consortium:

https://www.zellepay.com/

USAA is a participant in that network. Transfers are (EDIT: mostly immediate below a certain dollar amount, next day above) between participant bank users.

https://www.usaa.com/inet/wc/mobile_banking_send_money_zelle...
> I wonder, is occitan not related to occident and orient?

Nope!

The orient is where the sun rises and the occident is where the sun sets.

All of these have been traced back to Proto-Indo-European and have different origins:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orior#Latin

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/occido#Etymology_1

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ob#Latin

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hic#Latin

Edit: the eu- also has a different PIE etymology.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B5%E1%BD%96#Ancient_Greek
What if AMD or NVIDIA would take preorders for cards. Then they could ramp up to demand exactly right?
I think communication is really important. Many people do a poor job of working remotely. They have no idea whether this person is working or just sitting at home watching Netflix.

Constant communication helps to ensure that there is a flow of progress. This can be a daily update, or even lots of real time messaging.

It is much like a long distance relationship. Just keep your partner updated a lot, show you still care.
For one data point, Sequoia owns 25% of Dropbox. They led the seed and series A. That investment is going to pay off marvelously...
I expected something more like Groot's free-flying fireflies:

https://youtu.be/SdZvguUeiB0?t=18s
There are a lot of comments here expressing concern for the longevity of the clock due to vandalism and human activity. The inspiring thing about this project to me is the optimism that something like this can be exposed to the public and that we will respect it for 10,000 years.
If there's ever an Equifax scale breach at Dropbox, accountability will fall on the SVP of Eng.
eridius is right. Apple cannot update the firmware of the backend HSM clusters without data loss. (If you believe what they say.) They literally throw the signing keys into a blender. The article refers to device firmware not the iCloud backend.
Bordering with French is a newer phenomenon, though. Catalonia has traditionally bordered Occitan-speaking territories to the North so it has way more influence from Occitan than from French.
Well, fiat currency seems cheaper than PoW, even accounting for the cost of enforcement.
So the NSA was bad - violated the laws and constitution according to the U.S. Courts, therefore we're already at Hitler? What they did was bad. On the road to Hitler, maybe, but not there yet, surely.
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There's also no deduplication with client-side encryption.
The difference is that there is that anyone can create a pool without permission from the other pools. There are subreddits with more than 21 mods that have been easily infiltrated and taken over. You can't socially engineer a mining pool
> Paris is a muddy village

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutetia#Etymology
What are the practical consequences? Should I revoke your status as a being I have general moral obligations to? Or should I extend my moral obligations to all objects animated or not?
The 10,000 year is very convenient for Discordians.
> I believe ancient linguistic nuances like this are sometimes divined from formally structured poetry

Given that formally structured poetry in English (not sure if the same is true of other current languages) often uses somewhat different from usual pronunciation (in ways that are both immediately obvious to a reader familiar with the poetic style, and understandable if unusual to a listener hearing the spoken poem), I would worry that leaning too heavily on this as evidence might potentially be misleading .
Not sure how easy it is to find outside of boutique pets stores (just happen to live near a fantastic one that delivers for free) but I highly recommend the Orijen brand. Have tried numerous other “premium” brands with my dogs over the years but no matter which brand I was using, I always managed to run into at least one vet than had less than stellar things to say about brand x, y, or z. Maybe it’s just coincidence but in the 7+ years I’ve been feeding my dogs Orijen I’ve yet to encounter a vet that anything other than positive things to say about the brand.
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Well actually a lot of things that say made in China are actually just assembled there. Like the essentially all of the core components of the iPhone are made in Japan/SK/Germany/US and then shipped to China to be put together.
I knew a guy 20 years back whose girlfriend was working in battery chemistry at an Australian university. I had a nice time talking to her, but I remember thinking "wow.. this is so far off relevant to a real-world problem" ..did I get that wrong!

That experience, of what actually is, or is not the breakthrough technology moment, Its gold. I think some people have it: can spot it when they see it. I think I'm breakthrough-blind.
So no consequences?
August 2016 is not that old, it clearly applies to this situation (“adversarial clouds”), and also the salient points are documented in the iOS security white paper which is updated annually: https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
How does one read alttext on mobile devices?
Yes. CEOs also often have to hit performance targets in terms of revenues to unlock stock packages.
Yes, he'd be fired. Perhaps have to testify in front of Congress, even.

Accountability is worth $8M a year?
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honestly, who in their right mind would use the new Angular it's objectively worse in every area. In my experience only Angular development is maintaining Legacy code. Picking the new Angular would be insane it's slow, buggier, less flexible and more expensive to develop and find talent to build it's truly a lose-lose (unless you are a Angular team consultant that is)
Actually, most encryption includes compression. Google it.
Does Dart provide any advantage over something like TypeScript or flow, or is it more of a matter of preference? Anyway, I do want to check out Dart sometime soon, especially Dart and flutter.
If I understand correctly, you want to modify an input image at application time to get multiple different classifications, and then compare them to find out how certain the model really is.

While that would likely improve results a bit, it would also multiply the model runtime. That's why the other replies directly jump to talking about training data augmentation, since that can give you similar benefits without the runtime penalty.

However, random augmentation can't fully protect against adversarial examples. The number of input variables is simply too large, and there are exponentially many directions in which they could be modified. Data augmentation can't cover all of them, and a single modification that confuses the model slightly can be amplified into an adversarial example that causes a total misclassification.
> I'm not sure what point you're missing here. If you invade another country, particularly with the intention of commiting genocide there, and you get killed for doing so, you are not a victim of the country you were trying to wipe out, or its ideology, you're a victim of your own actions.

You do realize that it was the USSR (or Soviet Russia, depends on timing) that invaded Baltics, Western Ukraine, Central Asia, etc. etc. You may want to stop arguing about your fantasies and try talking about something that has basis in actual history.

> Okay, explain how the lives of the majority of people in Russia would have been improved under Nazi occupation than under Communism.

Ethnic makeup of survivors would be different. It is very much uncertain if the numbers would be much different. You do realize that mortality in Soviet prison camps during peace time was same or higher than in German labor camps (obviously not extermination camps) during the war?

> "Communism" has not killed more people. That's simply a fantasy based on an absurd publication denounced as fictitious even by its own authors.

Sadly, it is a basic fact, arguments are only about by how much exactly. Saloth Sar alone did ~1/10th of what Nazis did, and that without even invading anyone.

Bleatings of "Marxist historians" or useful idiots like Chomsky do not qualify as valid criticism anywhere.

> So you keep insisting. Who are you trying to convince, me or you?

I am just stating an obvious, well-attested fact.

> I don't believe people who were not killed by Communism should be counted as being killed by Communism.

Are you going to play the well-tired card of "but Stalin (Mao, etc. etc.) were not real, proper communists?

> What does any of this thread have to do with your incorrect insistence, supported by no credible source, that the famine of 1921 was a "forced famine"?

Taking the last grain, including seed grain, from, peasants (e.g. Prodrazverstka; you may want to look in Lenin's collected works for details) is exactly that -- forced famine.

> And do you accept any of their different numbers?

No, should I? You seem to be perfectly happy to take any number that makes your murderous heroes look good.

> This is you being not cagey again, I presume.

(sigh)
Maybe they need a faraday cage? or a femtocell which bonds inside the complex, and sinks the 9-1-1 calls?
It could have been simpler and just as free in Yahoo!Pipes. RIP.
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servers right. well said mabbo
>The next time some politician tells you regulations are always bad, only lead to more expenses for customers, remember this.