skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR: knowledge is power, surrendering your privacy is giving knowledge about you away, this quite literally translates into giving away power over you.

My core concern with eliminating the gap separating what corporations/governments know and the reality of people's lives is the smaller that gap becomes the less robust our democracy is on a very fundamental level.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal is the first major glimpse of what this enables and how it threatens our democracy.

I encourage you to watch the series The Century of the Self. It's a bit dated by now, but it illustrates a pretty clear lineage easily extrapolated to where we've arrived today.

It's important to protect the privacy of the public. There must be some uncertainty and substantial error when it comes to campaigns to influence the people.

When people say "I have nothing to hide", what they don't realize is that the fact they have nothing to hide is something to hide. The other side certainly has things to hide, and they benefit from having total visibility into what you're aware of.
That’s not true at least in the UK and Germany fines are issued essentially on the stop for every violation even questionable ones.
Also those by the window were maybe in direct sun.
This is really neat, thanks for sharing.
I know I may be stating something obvious here, but isn't this bad (aka tell me what the advantages of doing this by the people who passed the law) and how did a law like this get passed?

EDIT: I mean that Kenya is a democracy and there has to be some kind of rationale behind a move by the people pushing the move that "justifies" to the Kenyan people, its not like Kenyans suddenly decided to vote in a dictator, this new law is more restrictive than China.
I'd guess they mean "better to have one potential attacker because of the centralization that mining with a unique ASIC would tend to cause, than to have 25 potential attackers because you're vulnerable to an attack by 1/25 of worldwide GPU power (which is normally used for other coins but could be briefly repurposed)".
> - If living in an area without a strong software community, exchanging ideas and "talking shop" goes away. Learning and professional growth is now done entirely remote as well. Try and stay in an area with regular meetups or some sort of interaction with other engineers if you growing as a technical contributor is important to you.

This is my personal biggest issue. As a freelancer I think I particularly suffer from the lack of connections as well. I'm probably going to sign up for a coworking space soon in order to combat it.
The point is :

- Anti immigrant policies are loved by white conservatives.
- White conservatives are happy to face loss of their own freedom and money just to spite others.
- Immigrants barely get deterred by such moves but the proponents of these policies get hurt more and more.

For example no good company bothers to have any operations near the border. US Mexico border towns are ripe with low productivity jobs, crime, smuggling and government corruption.
Which CPU you got? Lots of MacBook Pros have 2.9 GHz i7, ranging from 2012 to 2018 models.
Not OP, but I have a hard time killing any insects. Will capture and place them outside if I find any in my home.

Watching the little guys move around, they just seem to be doing the best with what they got. I kind of see myself and humans the same way, so feel sad and lonely if I kill them.
I've been working remotely for a number of years and it has not affected my social skills at all AFAICT. But that's because I have a very full life outside of work, that involves a lot of social interaction.
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It's a MacBookPro14,3, which makes it an i7-7820HQ according to everymac.
I happen to have been looking around at this earlier today.

I found an open source project named Firefly III[1], that uses an API called Spectre[2]. Same deal, free for a certain number of bank accounts, but looks like you need to contact them to set up your API access. Incidentally, I recently saw an iOS app that had been using the Spectre API as well.

[1] https://firefly-iii.org/
[2] https://www.saltedge.com/products/spectre
Having a meritocratic structure doesn't even inherently mean individualist. It could be measured at the team or project level. It also doesn't have to be (and typically isn't) exactly the measurable contributions ("load-bearing capacity") to the goal itself that determines the best "engineer." More often your "best" engineer is the one who is easy to work with, embraces tough challenges, and can adapt well to changes.

Yeah I totally agree with that. To me, that shows that the measure of merit is, #1: extremely subjective and #2: influenced by all kinds of factors that would not traditionally be associated with merit.

Basically, I think that it often makes sense to do affirmative action within a true meritocratic framework, but that the term meritocracy is generally used to juxtapose against affirmative action. If the term is being used to argue against its true meaning, then it's not a useful term and should be retired.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17165535
That’s always how fashion/fads work, if you wait long enough you’re cool again. As a bonus you’ll have saved a ton of money and spared yourself untold aggravation.
>Please note that the attack costs do not include the money you earn in the form of block rewards, so in many cases the costs will actually be substantially lower.

If mining is supposed to be profitable, shouldn't it be profitable to control 51% of the network? Seems like economies of scale should lead to a clear industry leader. Whats stopping this from being the natural progression of bitcoin?
I read it as a shorthand for "reduce by a factor of 20" -- crucially, I believe `x` is meant to represent `⨉` (the multiplication symbol), as opposed to `𝓍` (a scalar variable).

The reason it drives me crazy is that I can't help but read it as being equivalent to multiplying by -19 (particularly when it's phrased like "such and such is now 20x less foobarish"). But even I have to concede that it clearly doesn't mean that.
> I try not to read a lot of news and outside media

I work from home and did the same for a long time. When I tried to enter casual conversation with people I noticed I was unable to discuss world events. In addition I was missing important local information, such as road closures or purposed tax increases. I settled on reading the daily paper. It covers everything I need to know, and while it has a bias, it’s much less than what’s on a facebook feed.
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Now that I'm thinking about it a bit more - I recall that GCC 6.1 added "-fno-plt" for x64 targets, which replaces PLT calls with "call [func@got]" instead, eliminating the double-indirection. Unfortunately, I don't have a GCC 6.1 environment, so I'd be curious to see if someone can run the benchmark with "-fno-plt" and how it performs. A combination of that plus indirect call prediction should basically close the gap with the JIT approach.
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I've worked remotely (with a 12-hour time difference!) from a home office for 3.5 years. Initially my wife and daughter were home much of the time, but for the past 1.5 years it's been just me, as my wife is working part-time and my daughter is in childcare.

I wasn't a particularly social person originally, but working alone has made me even more insular, and less inclined to join in social situations. It ended up with me feeling lonely and unhappy. I was considering quitting my contract, although similar work is difficult to find where I'm now living.

So two weeks ago, I started working in a shared workspace, and I will try that for a few months to see if it helps.

My guess is that every person has a different buffer of how long they can do without regular human company during the day, and I'd exausted mine. Having a family helps, but may not replace professional company where you are discussing things about your dayjob.
You mention the word "tell" often, which makes me feel... uncertain.

I get your point but GP seems to understand uncertainty better.

You can't force me to believe.
OK, but questions like that are freighted with 'should' whether or not you said so.
Terrible site - first the iOS "deceptive website scam", then a "iPhone user you've won $1000" full page scam
I think you meant 2^52, not 252.
How old were you when you started remote?
I think it's hilarious that you assume they chose the Tokina lens because they "had to" and not because it might be the best technical choice for this project.

You're a brand snob.
Well, there's K, along with its flagship database KDB which lets you write SQL-like queries and, from what I've heard, integrates very nicely with the language. idk how good their FFI story is. Unfortunately, you need to pay for commercial use.
Instead of blocking these features, won’t it be better to go fix he free platform? What he is doing only promotes mediocre free software to propagate that will only make user switch to other non-free alternatives - Vsnet and sublime are taking away many emacs users.
They aren't common in deep learning, but if you look to estimation problems like odometry, optimal control, and calibration, the typical approach is to build a least squares estimator that optimizes with a gauss-newton approximation to the Hessian, or other quasi-newton methods. Gradient descent comparatively exhibits very slow convergence in these cases, especially when there is a large condition number. In the case of an actual quadratic loss function, it can (by definition) be solved in one iteration if you have the Hessian. However, getting it efficiently within most learning frameworks is difficult, as they primarily only compute VJPs or HVPs.
Would I want to hire someone who didn't do their job well? Absolutely, if their incompetence was incompetence in my favor, which is something I'd want to reward. Alternately, if hiring them off freed up an opening for a friendlier regulator, I'd hire them that way too.

Kind of like how donating to the political campaigns of the longest-lasting, most honorable, and least corruptible judges in your local area will ensure they'll always recuse themselves in litigation you find yourself involved in.

To appear balanced, patent examiners must feel more than a little pressure to come down hard on the little guy.
Also married with three kids. I've worked remotely for years now, and I have a working spouse. I manage to socialize some with other parents because of kid activities, but that's about it! And I only manage that by keeping my work hours to about 30 per week.

If I go for a week or two without client face to face, I can feel my social skills getting more awkward.

I don't feel right now that there is room for improvement, so I'm just floating until life slows down again.
I don't know what the particular rhetorical dance I need to enact in order to ask that question positively rather than normatively is so I'm just going to disregard that problem.
Seriously, how could they have missed these gems?

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And the links from there are a pretty good start. Start with just basic asset tracking (checking, savings) and liability tracking (debt, CC) and get into the routine of it. Then you can add in your investments and other assets (car, home, stocks, foreign currency holdings, etc.). If you don't care about a slightly inaccurate history, just add the stocks later on at their present value, or go back and find your initial purchase dates and cost basis and let ledger calculate your present gain/loss.
I'm wondering if they did think of that, but were all rushing to cash out as much and as quickly as possible before the inevitable public backlash. A creepy-ness bubble, if you will.
I think none of this matters except one change: going from fours hours of sleep to eight.

I'm interested in QS, but the metrics aren't the ends they are the means. Increased subjective satisfaction is always my goal.

When I run I don't track pace but I do track time and I start each run with an idea of what my RPE for that run will be. My goal is to decrease time when RPE is fixed. So some days I run hard and some I don't because I'm not always trying to set a PB.

If metrics are guardrails that you are gonna crash into over and over while attempting to change behavior then you won't like QS. Not tracking your bad behavior doesn't make it go away. It just makes you ignorant.
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Co-operatives have been around for a long time outside of the software world. The low level problems are being worked on right now with DAOs, but it will take a while longer.

If you take the D out of DAO, then the high level problems: fairness and trust, can already be worked upon.

Are there any organizations that have tied software decision making to the existing legal system?
> I calculated the cost of renting hashing power from NiceHash to complete an attack.

I think the major caveat here is that it only takes ~35% hashing power to pull off a 51% attack, assuming you leveraging block withholding and other strategies.
> Unless the assumption is that the 25 parties buy chips and sit on them indefinitely without contributing to the network hash rate.

This is exactly what they are doing.

Lots of people are buying GPUs, but any SINGLE gpu coin has a very small percentage of total GPU hashpower.

For the extreme case, image that I have GPU coin, but I am only supporting it with MY GPU.

That means that any other person in the world, can now attack my coin, if they have more GPUs than me (1).

The fact that lots of people own GPUs doesn't protect me, because those GPUs aren't contributing to the network!
I think many people like centralized services because they’re often just nicer to use due to the stake/incentive the organisation running it has in to make it better. Also business customers like them because they’ve got someone to talk to and blame if things go wrong. Can’t some things be decentralized where it make sense and others not be? Are you suggesting the examples of the services you listed have a decentralized version?
Leaving the planet is meaningless if you still must rely on Earth for support. The moon is not going to be self-sustaining in any feasible future we might live to see. We’re stuck on Earth for now, let’s try to deal with it. Besides, if we can’t survive the fertile planet of our species’ birth what kind of lunatic arrogance makes us think we’ll survive a lifeless, airless rock?
One year, live with my wife, no, social skills have not declined. I am as charming as ever.
A Least Connections strategy effectively does this without needing to know why slow servers are slow (be it GC, lemon host, networking issues, etc) or needing the server to communicate anything back to the load balancer. Hosts which are more performant will naturally get more traffic.
Hi, this desperately needs examples of formulas (code and rendered) front and center. It's pretty hard to understand how this could be useful without that.

A comparison to UnicodeMath (which seems very similar and is an existing standard which already works in Latex) would also be useful.
I'm curious were Cardano ADA would be on this list. It seems to be one of the more thoughtful designs, and also a recent addition to the list of coins.
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That is disturbingly easy. Of the top 20 currencies by market cap 10 of them can be attacked with a NiceHash purchase. Representing over $2 billion in market cap. Bytecoin is a higher market cap coin that is almost as vulnerable as Bitcoin Gold. If a 51% attack also hits Ethereum classic (89% purchaseable), there will be market chaos.
I think the implication would be that you steal the asic mining farms.

IE, you somehow compromise 51% of the EXISTING hashpower, do your attack. It doesn't matter to YOU that their mining hardware will become worthless.
Yea this is what I still don’t understand. What’s to stop someone from creating a new coin and entirely new supply of currency? And what keeps the original currency (btc, for example) still valuable? Is it solely because in the short term bitcoin has the markets attention/hype, and if the hype was not there, there is no reason to anyone to buy and hold bitcoin in comparison to a different crypto?

Is there EVER a non-privacy, government, or tax avoidance type reason to hold bitcoin? I’m thinking like gold / precious metals are used in electronics and industry, jewelry, etc. A coin can’t be held and used for something. I suppose a company can use a blockchain internally for verifying things / ledger / whatever magic use they dream up, but that wouldn’t really be using it as a currency.

I actually am bullish on crypto, overall, because I think people are not rational and will buy for many years into the hype. On a 20-30 year timeline, I think it is harder to predict and know what to expect. Lots of things change when you look more than a few years out.

Someone please convince me, in a concise fashion!
What the hell are you talking about? When was the last time you heard your doctor recommend to burn as little calories as you can, and avoid 30 min of exercise a day at all costs?
I'm a bit of an outlier (autistic and extrovert). Every attempt at remote work or freelancing so far has been a disaster for me: I could neither build enough structure at home to get consistent results or even consistent working hours, nor put in enough effort to have satisfying amounts and quality of social interactions. The lack of constant swapping of ideas was also a major pain. YMMV.
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Source? From what I know, the German DPAs (they are organized on state level) hand out like 2 fines per month each, generally way below the maxima (under old German law, the max was 300000 €), and concluding the majority of cases without a fine.

E.g. from the Bavarian DPA (german doc: https://www.lda.bayern.de/media/baylda_report_07.pdf, page 151):

in the years 2015-2016 they had 173 proceedings that could involved potential fines. 52 of those resulted in fines. 34 of those fines were <1k€, 13 were <10k€.
There's already a GPU and ASIC shortage with prices skyrocketing - even without someone attempting a 51% attack. Being a PC gamer is tought right now - you often can't even find a GPU in stock!

Can't imagine how difficult it would be to hoard a ton of hardware.
Also the potato salad kickstarter[0]. Raised $55,000 to make a potato salad. Lots of clones appeared and made about $10.

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zackdangerbrown/potato-...
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No...people can believe whatever the fuck they want...they should just be ready to face the consequences of idiotic ignorant beliefs.
> I think the major caveat here is that it only takes ~35% hashing power to pull off a 51% attack, assuming you leveraging block withholding and other strategies.

Interesting. I'm curious to hear more about how this strategy works.
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Some of these it probably wouldn't take a very big ASIC investment compared to how much you could steal. Probably a little botnet for the small coins.

This site is good work.
If you think about it, a decent stack is composed of languages. That's currently already often true, e.g. the use of IDL languages like protobuf/flatbuffers. Some languages offer integrated idl like Kotlin (data classes). Another example is html, where the UI is described using a dsl to specify elements and CSS for layout & appearance.

This fact caused me to think: should stack also not be made of other languages? Is there a place for a completely pure functional language? I mean, Haskell is nice, but get a bit awkward with I/O. Same for APL. C# has nicely integrated data querying, but from a distance is actually at least somewhat awkward. C# seems to be optimized for mutable domain objects; everything else can be nicely done but falls somewhat outside it's "identity".

I would love to be able to express functions, functors and math using a terse math-y language. Whether that be APL or some sort of blend of Haskell and APL (Haspell? spelling pun intended), I don't care, but it would be great if we can have nice integrations of these languages in a full stack. Sort-of like how TypeScript and JavaScript have dialects to enable React syntax to express HTML within it.

The same thought experiment can be applied to SQL. Can we have a data-querying language integrated right into, say, C# or Java?