skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
KPMG was also implicated in the massive South African "state capture" scandal involving the (now fugitive) Gupta family and former president Jacob Zuma.

Among other things, KPMG issued a-later withdrawn-report that was used to undermine the well-respected finance minister, so that a more malleable person could be installed, while also auditing the Guptas during their worst excesses.

Lest we choose to dismiss this as crimes in an insignificant country, KPMG SA has been part of the worldwide group since the 70's, and South Africa's supposedly high auditing standards were a source of national pride.

The story seems to have gone dead after some senior leaders fell on their swords, but six months ago, there was serious talk about the firm being shut down in South Africa.
Are there replacement options being worked on? What about wrapping each request and unwrapping on the other end. Something like how Tor wraps requests in many layers?
Seems fair.

Would be nice to have a fifth slide explaining friction cost and why it might be a very bad idea to embed ever increasing friction as your formal verification method.
I am pretty sure that all of the benchmarks showed 64-bit ARM losing to 32-bit, though, by a few percent. The issue is that most code is not able to take advantage of SIMD, and almost all code is not register limited by any stretch, particularly as people tend to write such small functions, and we don't have calling conventions that can try to build register windows (like, "this is an A function that uses this subset of registers while this one is a B function that uses this subset of registers, so if we call a B from an A we don't have to save anything") combined with the top of the stack often being a virtual construct in the CPU anyway (mapped to virtual registers). With the ability for 32-bit ARM to compile stuff to half the code size (due to the Thumb variants), which lets it use half the limited instruction cache space and load faster from disk, it just isn't a very interesting upgrade. Oh: and programs tend to use a lot more memory, as now all of their pointers are twice as big. Some of these downsides are mitigated by the ability to play tricks like tagged pointers (you can't actually use all 64 bits for an address: only 48 or 52 or something are actually wired to the address bus), but except for specialized stuff (where the SIMD and floating point benefits really matter), the only real benefit is "the address space is larger" (a truly useful thing, FWIW, making it much easier to work with large files). (Oh: and it is easier for me to reverse engineer your code due to more useful invariants in the calling conventions ;P. This part makes me really happy.)
Unfortunately, enabling DoH in Firefox Nightly causes a 100% reproducible macOS kernel panic for me! :(

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1450583
I was using sqlmap once and was genuinely surprised how good UI it has. It automatically does so much guesswork and only asks highly important questions, but at the same time it never gets in the way. Also, it does few other things beside just SQL injection, and it surprisingly gave me shell access when I was not even looking for it.
With some potentially unreadable documentation. Spoken language is not less important than programming languages (and interestingly, from my experience, there seems to be at least some correlation between caring about either).
Surprised that nobody's called out SingularityNet [1] as a serious venture along these lines (sans "quantum").

"By combining open source principles, blockchain integration, and leading minds in machine learning we will make AI a global commons for all."

[1]: https://singularitynet.io/
>The greediest players end up "holding the bag" while every one else makes money.

Bag holders aren't the greediest players they're the last players.

>These games can be pretty profitable if you play conservatively.

Huh? How exactly do you play ponzi schemes conservatively?
Imagine an orbit that went around the Earth exactly parallel to the direction of the Sun, it could be in sunlight all the time. If you tilt such an orbit a little then part of it will fall into the shadow of the Earth, but perhaps only just a small part. There are other factors at play as well, such as the geometry of the Earth's shadow against an orbit and refraction of sunsets through the Earth's atmosphere.
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No, just components that handle certain things.
I upvoted for "your generation's labor." Like what?
>What makes you think most have a desire to raise their kids with future-proof values?

History.

>What makes you think that most have a desire to raise their kids?

Statistics.

> privileged assumptions

I think you've got a bit of hatred for this subject.

>Simpson/Huxtable thing is valid.

Fiction is merely an analog for the truth; in this case, a very minor, small part of the reality of parenting. No, Homer is not a good parent model. His character is more of an allegory for cynical irony than the reality, which is that a vast majority of parents - fathers - care very deeply for their children and want to see them survive whatever the future brings.

Anything less is the very apathetic, solipsism, we've been discussing.
I know, but it did what I wanted and didn't cost a lot($399CDN minus store points). Picture is acceptable too.
NTSB ‘unhappy’ with Tesla release of investigative information in fatal crash
Astonishingly patronizing, but...thank you I suppose.
Top tier bug bounty hunters can make hundreds of thousands per year on Hackerone/Bugcrowd/Synack.
I would. Both because it's more idiomatic and because it's inevitable more functions will be added.
WARNING: contains spoiler for Anna Karenina. Man, I was just thinking of starting that book.
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Look into LibreELEC, I use that and buy android tv boxes. You can dual boot, LibreELEC from an SD and android from NAND. It's stable enough that I've began to just flash nand and run soley LibreELEC, but you'll be limited from the wide availability of android support for most major content providers apps
>"Suppose you were a Wells Fargo depositor and a Wells Fargo teller opened a fake account in your name without consulting you. What harm did you suffer?"

Are you joking? The fake accounts were set up in order to bilk customers out of money in the form of overdrafts fees and penalties.

"Some customers noticed the deception when they were charged unexpected fees, received credit or debit cards in the mail that they did not request, or started hearing from debt collectors about accounts they did not recognize. But most of the sham accounts went unnoticed, as employees would routinely close them shortly after opening them. Wells has agreed to refund about $2.6 million in fees that may have been inappropriately charged."[1]

It also probably impossible to quantify the time customers lost having to deal this. But I think it safe to say it was significant.

>"How massive is this fraud if you measure it in a more useful way than "number of accounts"

OK lets use dollar amounts as a metric - $2.6 million dollars in fees, levied against your own customers? And considering Well Fargo found an additional 1.4 million previously undisclosed fake accounts as recently as August[2] and that the regulatory probe has now widened beyond their retail banking unit and not includes their private wealth division I would say pretty fucking massive.

It's really interesting that you seek to trivialize the scope and severity of a story you seem to know so very little about.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/business/dealbook/wells-f...

[2] http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/31/investing/wells-fargo-fake-a...

[3] https://www.barrons.com/articles/federal-probe-expands-to-we...
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Zuckerberg, Gates, Musk and the Google guys aren't as smart as Wolfram, period.
100% of the downtime for MomentoVPS was from ceph cluster failures....
I'm not sure which part sounded patronizing. I actually wanted to make sound rather re-assuring.
> smart contracts and distributed algorithms enable control mechanism and hard guarantees that have no old world equivalent, they can eliminate counterparty risks, guarantee solvency and fair arbitration etc.

The required nexus between the blockchain and the tangible and legal worlds means every limitation that exists today will exist for a "smart contract". It's the same plumbing with a paint job.
I know about Standard Tier, though it had slipped my mind--thanks for pointing it out.

It's still way too expensive. And Cloud CDN isn't an appropriate tool for my use case. I really do just need a bunch of egress from a single location that isn't insanely expensive. $0.085/GB is in that insanely-expensive tier, for me.
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Can anyone else please confirm for apple.
> Of course the mind is irrational. And of course our sense of self is an illusion.

You admit this in one paragraph, but pretend it doesn't matter...

> It is important to continuously reevaluate what we think the mind is because it is representative of how we see the world.

...and then in the next paragraph, you're talking about "reevaluating" as if that has any meaning if there is no rationality.

If you've eschewed rationality, you're not evaluating facts--facts can only be established through rationality, be it observation or logic. A philosophy which eschews rationality is fine, I suppose--it's a creative process which can be entertaining just like any sort of fiction or art. The problem is that you're both eschewing rationality and claiming facts which can only result from rationality. It's just a special pleading to try to present your creative ideas as fact without having to prove them as fact through rationality, and I'm not fooled.
By this logic so is every financial software system, though.
In Florida I'm getting identical times with 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 ~56ms
And on Netflix South Africa
Which conversion tools/services do you have in mind?
I think i have questions to Google:

[user@v-fed-1 ~]$ dig txt o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @8.8.8.8 +short
"74.125.46.8"
"edns0-client-subnet 92.223.114.166/32"
[user@v-fed-1 ~]$ dig txt o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @8.8.8.8 +short
"74.125.46.11"
"edns0-client-subnet 176.36.247.0/24"
[user@v-fed-1 ~]$ dig txt o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @8.8.8.8 +short
"74.125.74.3"
"edns0-client-subnet 94.181.44.185/32"
[user@v-fed-1 ~]$ dig txt o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @8.8.8.8 +short
"74.125.46.8"
"edns0-client-subnet 92.223.114.166/32"
[user@v-fed-1 ~]$ dig txt o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @8.8.8.8 +short
"74.125.74.3"
"edns0-client-subnet 94.181.44.185/32"
My project is 1 year and 6 months old or so and yeah I've had a similar experience. CherryPy is a great framework, and Mako not sure why I chose it was also an equally great choice.
That's not why blockchain is bs.

Let me tell you a little story you might want to remember, so you can tell your grandchildren. This is how you might tell them:

"You think algorithms are hard, little children? You don't want to stay up to date? Well gather round, gather round, let gramps give you a sense of human folly and just how far we have come. Maybe that will let you appreciate how lucky you have it.

"Way back before all these modern doodads, gizmos, and doohickeys, back in aught 9, or "two thousand and nine" as we called it, mathematicians were so clueless about algorithms that they made distributed databases resistant to sybil attacks through proof of work doing random-ass hashes. What that meant is instead of figuring out how to prove nodes weren't colluding, we made them prove they were burning oil - or gas - or coal - or sunlight, or whatever they wanted. But they had to throw their hands up and come up with a random hash, to prove that they were really all working on the problem.

"By 2018, the resulting worldwide bitcoin database used 30.1 terrawatt-hours of power per year to perform the work that a $20 dedicated chip could do in the size of a container of tic-tacs. And that $20 includes 100 gb, a dedicated microcontroller, and 5 years worth of alkeline batteries. The database size borders on nil.

"All because we didn't know any better. That is something like $3,848,100,000 in 2018 money - three billion dollars spent on doing $20 worth of work.

"To put this into perspective, imagine that in 1802, Merriam Webster had purchased fifty thousand tumblers, into which it put printed plates, and then hired fifty thousand workers to open each one every few minutes, and count to see if it had managed to assemble the plates into alphabetical order. (This is called bogosort.)

"Well, if you don't know that there is such a thing as a sorting algorithm, if it's unknown to science, then perhaps bogosort is the best you can do. Such was the state of distributed blockchains in 2018.

"So you need to be thankful for what you have. Oh but it's tough! You have to think it through! Well in my day nobody thought it through. We just shoveled thirty terawatts of coal into furnaces and made little kids cry when they couldn't afford gaming equipment anymore, since all of it was being used to get around the fact that nobody sat down and did the math for a $20 distributed database.

"you kids have it printed in black and white. sit down and learn. we had to take electricity from schools and hospitals, to raise the sealevel to where parts of Hawaii had to be evacuated. This stuff has consequences. Learn your algorithms. Trillions of watts died for them."
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> This powerfully aligns their incentives with the well-being of the ecosystem

Like ensuring Bitcoin can't scale beyond the Great Firewall's limits?
Several great answers already, there are certainly many ways to look at this. One that makes sense to me is to consider that we spontaneously create a sense of self as and when we need to, and dissolve it when we don’t. Where is your sense of self when you are asleep, or ‘in the zone’ playing a sport, or ‘lost in yourself’? At those moments we are no longer conscious of our present thoughts, we have no sense of self as such for much of the time. It’s as though we are in the animal state, our higher brain functions disengaged. A sense of self and personal consciousness is an illusion because it is something ephemeral and temporary.
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By far the deepest and most eloquent writing on this subject that I've ever read has been Seneca's "On the Shortness of Life".[1][2]

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Shortness-Life-Seneca/dp/1941129420/

[2] - https://tripinsurancestore.com/4/on-the-shortness-of-life.pd...
That’s like making the argument for abstinence vs. birth control. Yes, the only 100% solution is not to ever post anything publicly. But there is still value in making things more private/less permanently persistent for the people who still choose to post.
And yet my mom's favorite conspiracy blogs still look straight outa 2002
Most are built on reversible foundations.

Mind you, Ethereum apparently was too. :P
Nope: https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/products.html#darwin
What does that actually mean in practice? Any successful piece of code is a million dollar bug bounty. A Windows remote execution can sell for millions and do damage in the billions.

Is it easy to exploit smart contracts? Is it fundamentally impossible to make them secure? Maybe we lack the proper tools, maybe current architectures need to be improved.
I do know about this story. The purpose of the fake accounts was to meet sales quotas. Fees earned for the bank were accidental and usually nonexistent, for the obvious reason that if you charge your unwitting customer money, they are much more likely to realize they have an account with you.
Many privacy activists believe that the best proof of a no-logging assertion is for a court to order a provider to turn over logs and for the company to be unable to do so.
This time with Medium will be different! /s
How Fortnite leveled up, broke records, and changed gaming
I don't know, I get the feeling this project will have a lot of hype but nothing useful come out of it in the end. The team behind it doesn't seem like they have had significant practical successes, or exits.

I am also pretty prejudicial against anything that includes the term "singularity." That term sets of my bullshit detector.
What do you mean by that? By 'scale' are you referring to transaction scaling? If not I don't understand your point.
2B+ people do not have access to banking or trade. They are poor because we do not trade with them.

I couldn't pay someone in South Africa rural area for something worth $2 without bitcoin.

Many other people are censored.

Billions more have their wealth devalued via inflation.

Bitcoin is a way for people to be free without any state taking their money (see Greece)
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Console hardware collector here. $4K is insanely overpriced unless the thing was never opened in the first place.

I've been meaning to get a Bandai @tmark Pippin from Japan, but we're still talking maybe $500-600 and the "games" are just too hard to find outside of a couple of non-gaming titles. Finding Bungie's Marathon is nigh impossible, for instance.
Given that they're a CDN, I would expect them to. I'm jealous that BNA has AT&T peering but Kansas City has minimal/no peering.
But that's exactly the thing: if I were claiming anything it would be that the mind is chaotic. But to arrive at that, like you said, I must use processes of rationality. That doesn't mean the mind isn't chaotic, and it actually exemplifies what I'm trying to say quite well.

We exist in a reality that is inherently chaotic. We can approximate but never reach. But our approximations help us move around, because as we can see the chaos also has some kind of structure (think of the Lorenz attractor). We can't explicate the structure, but we can certainly create our own structure-- which is where rationality comes in. If we constantly re-evaluate the mind, we constantly build new structures which are adaptive to the energy of the era in which we conceptualize, and we are better suited to continue to create within this reality.
then use a proper desktop browser.
What could trigger the incrementor to resync?
I'm also not trying to claim anything as fact.
With the CD32, though, you could legitimately turn it into an Amiga desktop.
The slides make a number of decent points, but the general tone ends up being self-defeating, which is a shame because many of these points are actually worth debating in depth.

Specifically, on governance of blockchains (as in: trustless distributed consensus systems, and not as in: merkle chains), I do tend to agree with the tweets that devs have a huge amount of pull, and that this is both grossly under-estimated and under-discussed.
Disagree with slide three on "private blockchains". Weaver underestimates the difficulty of reaching consensus among a fixed set of participants by assuming there is just one party that signs blocks. If there is more than one party you end up in the land of BFT. Distributed systems are hard to build. Additionally a solution which is trivial to implement makes that solution good. I wish we had more trivial solutions to these problems.
Lewis Lapham (former Editor-in-Chief of Harper's magazine) is brilliant.
Putting the focus on parents is a distraction. Obviously it's the responsibility of parents to monitor and regulate their childrens' internet usage. But that doesn't take any of the responsibility off of the social media companies for their attacks on attention and privacy.

Social media companies can't just prey on people and then say, "It's not our fault--their parents should have protected them from us!"
> Back up the DBs in my environment as best as possible and serve traffic from there

From a data protection/retention view: run a cache and use expiration in terms of weeks. Keeping the data as "backups" floating around is a recipe for heavy fines if someone decides to do an audit and finds some left over sqldumps.

If you do need a full backup/replication: get this written off by your superiors so you aren't on the hook in case someone decides to do an audit and determines you to being the one responsible.
I'll be at MGC in a couple of weeks and kinda hope that Pippin's there so I can have a go at it. :)
Bitcoin miners' interests don't always align with the Bitcoin community's. Miners want to keep control. If growing the system means they lose control, it can be in their interest to limit growth (which benefits everyone but hurts them). This appears to have happened with mainland Chinese miners resisting transaction scaling on the Bitcoin blockchain due to their Internet constraints (being behind China's firewall).
Very interesting, thank you! I've actually been wondering about this sort of idea of teaching math.
I think it could make it less toxic by allowing the long tail of users to delete things that may have come off-the-cuff, in a heated moment, or are simply cringeworthy when you look back on them.
Many, perhaps most are indeed. I think most teenagers are also able to use social media in ways that aren't harmful to them.
Not readily available in the sizes popularly used for TV/video viewing, as far as I can tell. Large-format monitors tend to be full of "digital signage" or touchscreen features now; some are even Android-based.
There is Sheepdog distributed file system which recently went into version 1.0. Sheepdog is similar to Ceph but seem simpler to operate.

For distributed object storage: I have also used MooseFS,LizardFS distributed object storage and MooseFS,Lizard runs very steady on production work loads. Steady as setup and then no ops issues.

Also to the short list is BeeGFS, BeeGFS is created by Fraunhofer is seriously fast distributed file system.
There is no consensus definition of what a blockchain is. In fact the Satoshi whitepaper that introduced Bitcoin does not even use the word blockchain it talks about a hash chain of blocks a concept which predates Bitcoin by ~30 years. The real innovation of Bitcoin was to use PoW to both limit Sybil attacks and to make additions to the hash chain computationally expensive to revert. Often however when people talk about blockchains they are talking about systems which don't use PoW at all. Like end-to-end encryption or peer-to-peer networks blockchain describes a cloud of concepts and technologies. A better terminology would be DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology).
Not in an insurance-based model.
Understood. Out of curiosity, how much egress are you doing? (We, and other providers, need this feedback to prioritize more bulk egress solutions)
I'm in Mexico:

1.1.1.1 60 ms

8.8.8.8 20 ms
Although I couldn't see a way to do it when I first looked at Medium, I'm told that there is now a way to use it with your own URLs.

I haven't bothered to examine how it works, but if you can do that and you have a disaster recovery plan that replicates your entire output to a different service (e.g. GitHub Pages) while retaining the link structure, then perhaps Medium is now superior to Posterous's original offering.
i just joined their marketing team
Has anyone not heard all of this before? And the counterarguments also?
The closest I've had to success was my old ThinkPad which would power off the screen when the lid closed but would not suspend the actual system.
The POSIX spec (IEEE 1003.1) says the same thing for inet_addr(), so it does occur in an actual spec.
"Vegan pseudoscience" page that cites thousands of peer reviewed papers from non-vegan researchers. I think you're bitter and denigrating the web site in a pathetic attempt to justify your wrongful world view only.
Wow, triggered much? Maybe read and research https://www.carnism.org/ before getting so upset. Just because you're part of an ideology you yourself don't apprehend, doesn't mean it's "silly" and "pseudoscience". Have more intellectual honesty that this, please.
online poker will probably move towards blockchain and you can do things to prevent spam when people pay fees, theres virtually no adoption of blockhain tech, things move slower in an open source project so its understandable