skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't relying on IP diversity as a measure of attack difficulty a bad assumption in the first place? If an attacker has access to the cable outside my home, then they can pretend to control as many IPs as they want.

It seems to me that the most reliable defense against eclipse attacks is to just compare the block rate of the longest chain we know about to the historical average. If the block rate is roughly normal, then either we're seeing the real longest chain, or an attacker has acquired nearly 50% of hash power, which is unlikely.

The same idea works with proof of stake -- if the participation rate drops substantially below the historical average, we're probably not seeing the main chain, and we shouldn't consider anything final until the participation rate return to normal.
Like others have mentioned, it seems that elm has done a great job of promoting itself, but lacks the structure to make big changes.

It screams of needing some sort of governance and RFC process ( edit: seems that there is an RFC process [1]) so that all parties could make their case.

The Angular 1 -> 2 transition should be a lesson to most that if you leave your users hanging, they'll go find another ecosystem.

[1] - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/elm-dev
People just don't update windows.

That made me remember having to update the BIOS firmware and doing it at 3AM and on a night without wind when there was almost no chance of power going out.
I don't really take iOS all that seriously, either.

Of all the things anyone would trade for money Cryptokitties is really riding the line between smart and so dumb it devalues the concept of Ethereum, which might have been the point.
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I'm not sure if you are just following these lambo-moon kids on the internet. There are many many smart people working in the cryptocurrency. Just start following Naval Ravikanth, Adam Back, Balaji Srinivasan, Meltem Demirors et al.
One big problem with that is that the uncertainty in the variance is probably larger than the uncertainty in the mean.
Sabine Hossenfelder has a slightly tongue-in-cheek FAQ on anti-gravitation, and from time to time blogs about it.

https://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/~hossi/Physics/anti-gravity.ht...

You might find that interesting.

The key constraints come from General Relativity; the successes of the Schwarzschild and Kerr(-Newman) metrics for physically plausible arrangements of matter need to be preserved if you try to add in a symmetry.

If we use perturbation theory to capture deviations from the metric of a reasonable exact solution to the Einstein Field Equations, the structures can be represented as classical waves in the metric tensor. Quantizing these waves ("perturbatively quantized gravity") inevitably results in a massless spin-2 particle. Spin-2 interactions have a feature you wrote yourself:

> that like attracts like, and unlike repels unlike

(maybe more clearly put as: like charges mutually attract and unlike charges mutally repel). Note that this is backwards from the spin-1/2 of fermions.

> "Dark matter" would be variation in the prevalence of one sign or the other.

In the standard cosmology, dark matter is attractive. Ordinary matter falls into areas where dark matter is dense, as discussed in the "Unprecedently wide and sharp dark matter" phys.org article, or if you prefer, http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Planck/Histo...

If you want a particle which interacts gravitationally with ordinary matter but which can carry a gravitational charge of opposite sign, you probably shouldn't call it "dark matter". However, you can certainly define such a thing with some rigour and test it.

> How would one test such a model?

Mathematically? After all, you need to generate reasoned (rather than guessed) observables that you can then look for.

You would probably do like Noether and Hilbert and solve the equations of motion of your matter theory producing the canonical stress-energy tensor, and then improve it using a metric variational procedure. Forger & Römer is a good place to look: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0307199

You can see how Hossenfelder does this in her anti-gravitation paper (direct link: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0508013) in which her matter theory doubles the number of particles in the Standard Model, with the second set identical to the first except for the opposite gravitational charge); Forger & Römer is her reference [20].

Once you have a self-consistent and reasonably complete model you can consider areas where it generates identical observables to the standard cosmology where those are already being tested (the fine detail in the cosmic microwave background; gross structures like galaxies, clusters, and filaments; large-scale homogeneity and isotropy; the Hubble flow) and where your model makes predictions that differ from the standard cosmology.
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I measure 1 cup rice to 2 cups water (often boiling, from the kettle), check it every now and then, and when it's got "holes" - gaps where water has bubbled and evaporated - I turn off the heat underneath. I never add salt. I can't remember the last time I've burned it but I've made sticky, underdone rice plenty of times. Maybe I'm just not that picky?

Edit: I use a non stick pan, tefal ingenio pans with removable handles which are a great time saver. Nothing ever sticks to them! So maybe I do burn rice and I just don't realise
You can with the modern $400 Metabones adapter. It's cheaper than selling all the lenses and buying new ones.
You should be asking the opposite question. Why does anyone choose to have children?

The answer as far as I can tell for most people is that they didn't actually choose after careful consideration of merits. They either just kinda felt like they wanted kids or were told that they needed to have kids or kids just kinda happened, or some combination of the three. But so much of the terrible part of having kids is hidden from potential parents that few people ever get to make a well-informed decision.

Have you ever looked at someone with young children? I mean really looked them in the eyes? They look miserable. Every single one of them. They deny it up down and sideways, but it's true except for rare brief moments. It's just that the rare joyful moments are they ones they remember because our brains suppress trauma. And it lasts for years; that miserable look doesn't go away until they've burned all of their youth. Do they love their children? Yes. Would they do anything for their children? Usually. And so would many pet owners. Are they proud of what their children grow into? Mmm...sometimes. Are they glad that they had children? Mmm...sometimes. Would they do it again if given the chance to turn back the clock? Mmm...sometimes. That's the dirty secret that you're not supposed to talk about.

Not having children makes everything less stressful, and by everything I mean literally every last little thing. Every single moment of every day of your entire life is cheaper and easier without children. Every decision you make involves fewer obligations. Want to DuoLingo for a couple months and then burn some cash and move to a foreign country for a while? Go for it. But good luck integrating an 8-year-old into elementary school on a one year tourist visa.

My mother and father had a bunch of amazing life adventure stories. None of them were from after I was born.

No regrets so far.
It's not necessary.

I'm also an only child supporting my elderly parents, so moving away isn't really an option, unless things get handmaid's tale bad.
Vaguely related, but I liked this comic about not answering questions too quickly:

http://kiriakakis.net/comics/mused/a-day-at-the-park
Incidentally, one of the provisions in the ACA over in the US specifically prohibits the use of QALY as a cost-effectiveness threshold. It's just one of many reasons it's so absurd for Americans to point to the NHS as a demonstration of how much more cost-effective healthcare would be if it were nationalised; something like the NHS with its cost-saving measures just wouldn't be politically viable there.
Could it be a bandwidth issue? I remember reading about 120fps 4k video on an Android phone being limited to only a few (real-time) seconds because there wasn't enough I/O bandwidth to stream the video to storage so it had to stream into a specialized hardware buffer that was relatively small and expensive.
Do you have children?

What's funny is you even think of having kids through the focus of you, like you could find purpose. That's seriously self involved man. It's not about you.

From a distance drowning looks a lot like swimming. Swimming is fun and enjoyable, where as drowning in a desire for personal fulfillment isn't.

Get in the water (have kids), it may surprise you.
It would be really, really easy to make the exact same points, simply by typing less. I've seen a lot of people defend Linus on the grounds that he's "terse" but this is actually quite unnecessarily verbose, and would be much clearer and easy to read without the temper tantrums bookending it. Starting from "I get tons of" and ending with the "in tinydrm-helpers.h" line would make the exact same point, without requiring an actual adult to step in and try to do damage control for him to prevent him from driving a promising newbie out of the project.
This will only work if you can cheaply validate the work performed. Or send it to several distinct visitors and compare results, driving down the likelyhood that the results are bogus.
The way I understand it, the kernel work is heavily subdivided into subcommanders and such; only a few people show code to linus directly.

So I imagine its extremely unlikely that any early contributer could be turned off by a linus rant targeting them. They contributor loss would have to be based on the fact that the rants exist at all.

My suspicion is that very few qualified contributors are scared off by the existence of Linus's rants. Maybe if it targetted them, repeatedly, but otherwise its difficult to imagine this is a significant source of loss.
Neat! Seems similar to this project which I've been keeping an eye on: https://github.com/geoffreylitt/ladybug
There was already a recent Ask HN on why people have children.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16509949
Imagine the multiplayer version showing you all the other sysadmins or devs entering the same room to check for logs etc as a problem is being debugged. "Hey dude, look at this log!" and there goes the command for a tail or grep...
Similar quesion, aimed at math majors: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/81px9v/what_are_some_...

Really, if you're not going to go to e.g. community college where you can do a lot of this (LA, prob/stats, calc) your best shot is to find study groups in Data science meetups, etc which are plentiful in major cities since many people have the same impulse. Truthfully, self study rarely gets far if people never went beyond Calc 2.

Here's a blog about one guy's adventure, read the part where he talks about Shores' LA text(not a bad book by the way but yes, lots of typos): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8996024
Sounds amazing when you put it like that. I could be putting nine weeks into a project instead of watching Netflix
Yes! It's a new course that will be open for enrolment soon. I think it's exactly what most people here are looking for.

There is the financial aid and normally there is the option to watch the lectures and see the assignment for free. On the other hand, the cost of the courses rarely exceeds $50.
Scottish NHS also has funding issues, so who knows whats going to happen.
Any exceptions to the regulation will inevitably be subject to a narrow interpretation particularly if it is clear that someone is looking to do something which is outside the spirit of the regulation.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
I also study Permaculture, which is a science of study of the environment.

There is a paradox discussed in Permaculture: “The problem becomes the solution.” Applying that to the population numbers, we may actually not have /enough/ people.

The problem of too many people becomes the solution: Get enough people acting rightly and many other problems get solved. Some Permaculturists believe the earth has the capacity for fifty billion people; it’s just that current resources are so poorly managed. We may not have enough people to solve so many of the world's pressing problems.

The alternative is to treat people like weeds. But we need a path of love, not fear.
You'd hire a 'new guy' when planning to rob the Crown Jewels?

I guess I'd suggest not considering crime as a profession.
I tried Pine for a few months but ultimately changed to mutt. But today I'm using Thunderbird.
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I knew I'd get this comment, hehheh. Sure, it takes two (materials) to (do the friction) tango, and the ball actually does resist the air. But the goal is to move the ball, and a ball game in a vacuum would still be a ball game, so I guess I'm trying to think of a better way to say it. Not having any luck, BTW
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Like most obvious things, scientist have tried what is known in the field as "image segmentation". If you google it, you'll see a bunch of demos and papers.

I haven't seen anything in the literature about incredibly effective implementations of 3D understanding and/or depth perception at the level you'd perhaps hope, but there is some progress being made.
I read your sources. Your source, in particular the 1900 cars/lane/hour specifically illustrates the poor quality of this article, where the author tries to take us into an alternate universe where the theoretical maximum flow of passenger vehicles is 1600/CITY/hour.
It's sort of like test driven vacuuming ;)

I love the comparison to codebases. I just wish I could commit the perfect tidy version of the room to a git repo and then reset to that every night. :)
> uMatrix will block requests which would pull source code, but it does not stop script execution, i.e. those embedded in the page itself

You are mistaken. You could have taken a few seconds to try for yourself before making this erroneous claim.

> NoScript also activates `<noscript>` tags which will allow content to render on Medium.

uMatrix can also "activate" the `noscript` tags, and this can be disabled/enabled on a per-site basis.
Definitely a lot of bandwidth required. 60 fps 4k would be 1.7 GiB/sec, 120 fps twice that.

3840×2160×10×3×60÷8÷1024÷1024÷1024
Does it matter? If someone has some kernel development skill, they're probably writing kernel software. What does it matter if it isn't in Linux?
Yes, looks like that could be it. Thanks!

Scrubbing through the video like that is quite an interesting technique.
I think it's about the Elm language [1] not the email client [2]

[1] http://elm-lang.org/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm_(email_client)
How Many Solar Panels Are Needed to Power the World
This is what Golem cryptocurrency does, with the trust protocol in place through the blockchain [1]

1. https://golem.network
Definitely tangential to the main point, but I don't really think it's accurate what one of the biologists implies about McDonald's food:

> “It’s basically what you’d get at McDonald’s,” said Dr. Bäckhed said. “A lot of lard, a lot of sugar, and twenty percent protein.”

As far as I can tell, McDonald's stopped frying their french fries in lard back in 1990 and other products before then. (See http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-07-24/business/90030... .)

Fast food has plenty of nutrition problems, but it doesn't seem helpful to make up ones that don't actually exist.

Maybe he just used the wrong word since he's from Sweden, though.
Smacks of monopolistic behavior from Amazon
Context: First child is due in two months and a day.

I always assumed I wouldn't have kids, because I just never wanted to. And then my brother had a kid, and I met someone who I thought I could actually be a decent co-parent with, and the combination made me think it was totally doable.

On top of that, I read about a longevity study which showed that connections in old age are the biggest correlation to happiness. And when I imagined myself aged 70 with kids, and aged 70 without kids, the first one made me feel a lot happier.

I'm totally aware that having kids tends to cause a dip in happiness to start with, but I'm fairly confident that I'll feel a lot happier, and better about my place in the world, with children than I would without.
"But when they examined individual students’ strengths more closely, they found that the girls, though successful in STEM, had even higher scores in reading. The boys’ strengths were more likely to be in STEM areas. The skills of the boys, in other words, were more lopsided—a finding that confirms several previous studies.

If boys chose careers based on their own strengths—the approach usually suggested by parents and guidance counselors—they would be most likely to land in a STEM discipline or another field drawing on the same sorts of skills. Girls could choose more widely, based on their own strengths."
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You have piqued my interested. Is the problem at a social level? We want leaders who are assertive and strong willed?

I think most organizations suffer from this problem, not just governments.

For example, there are megachurches[0] that have gained huge followings only to collapse due to leaders with this personality and the will to hold onto power.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Hill_Church#Church_reorga...
> There was already a recent Ask HN on why people have children.

That's ok. If you read past my first line you'll see that I'm answering the question asked in _this_ one.
The main processing basis for many entities will be straightforward processing to provide service under Art 6.1.b. Legitimate interests like consent should generally be avoided wherever possible due to the additional burden it places on organisations to document the balancing test you've undertaken, and the potential for it to be questioned in future. Although I fully agree in many cases it will be entirely appropriate to use legitimate interests as the relevant processing basis.
There's PureScript to add to the list as well.
I don’t like it. It’s clearly against the intended use of Medium.

IMHO, if you don’t want a paywall, you either pay for the product or leave the website.
For the same reason why there are more female kindergarten teachers than male ones. Equal distribution of gender across jobs is nonsense, equal opportunity is welcome though (see Scandinavian countries)
No.

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Modern SD cards go up to 300 MB/s for writes. That should be enough. Even if you dump the pixel data with zero compression.

8-bit pixels: 1920x1080x30 = 62.2 MB/sec

14-bit: 109 MB/s

Even UHD in 8 bits should work.
I don't think you have any legitimate reason to believe his vulgarities are somehow protecting his health or sanity. But I also don't see any reason to believe they're harming anyone else's.
That's actually quite the thought provoking question.

I think, since I'm so accustomed to getting information gratis and don't really have very much disposable income, if push came to shove I'd just give up on all non-free sources of information and find some other way to occupy my free time -- perhaps quit being lazy and work enough to upgrade my computer so I could get back into Blender development or something along those lines. It's much too easy to spend hours reading random articles or watching the youtubes instead of being productive "for society" and I have a bunch of half-finished projects scattered across my harddrives that could easily keep me entertained if I lost access to free content on the internet.
Because it's literally another magnitude of data rate. For cinema raw, the whole camera has to be designed around a high speed data path to a very fast and wide storage system. This is much bigger, more power hungry, more thermally demanding, and more expensive than even the high end DSLRs.

The a7iii can shoot JPEG at 10fps pretty much continuously as far as I can tell. Well, that's about 80MB/s. Cinema RAW 4K @30fps varies wildly but one number I've heard is about 4.5Gbps. 550MB/s. That is a substantial increase which would require not only a redesign of the entire data path but presumably much higher grades of storage. Maybe one day but not happening anytime soon!
It's an interesting idea. I recently went through drawabox so I gave this app a try, but it's poor execution — basically unusable for me. I think I agree that a fixed deployment would probably be more stable and usable.
The screenshot shows a breakdown of timing by component (Middleware, router, view, etc). Or perhaps I don't quite understand what you mean by "model an actual timeline"?

As a side note, we've been using miniprofiler[0] for a long while now, and it has some limitations, but can be very useful some times.

[0] https://github.com/MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler
You can even automate deleting their cookies on Firefox (at least) with the "Cookie AutoDelete" extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...
Definitely agree. I wouldn't even call the angular thing a transition, since it basically threw everything out. It should've really been called something else.

There's also big examples like Perl 6 and Python 3.

IMO, you can make breaking changes as long as it's done gradually and you provide a clear migration path. After experiencing React's strategy [0] for a few years, I'd say it's become my gold standard for how breaking changes should be made.

[0] https://reactjs.org/docs/design-principles.html#stability
The risk of nitrites and nitrates in bacon
Will climate change have an effect on home runs? I'd imagine there would be more home runs in warmer years.