skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that the article and comments are talking about wealth, not income. I know a few young software engineers who are likely in the 98th percentile for income but not even the 90th for wealth.

According to https://dqydj.com/net-worth-percentile-calculator-united-sta..., the ratio between the 98th and 89th percentile of wealth actually is roughly 5-6x. (89th is around 1.1 million, 98th around 5.8 million).
> But Callahan [VP of a tech industry group] doesn't think a privacy law should be written by advocates like Mactaggart and put on the ballot.

> "Without any sort of process ... the proponents came up with this law," Callahan says. "[Mactaggart is] suggesting [this] should be the law of the land without any sort of public vetting or scrutiny and we think that's irresponsible and dangerous."

Isn't the ballot initiative process the "public vetting or scrutiny" this guy is talking about? Seems like he's unhappy his group didn't get a chance to water down or kill the measure behind the scenes.
> I look very much forward to rellocate it all the way to the back of my drawer and leave it there for some time.

This is funny - I feel the same way about a lot of side projects I undertake. Great writeup btw. I feel like this type of stuff gets harder and harder as ICs fit into tighter packages. Glad someone is taking the time to explore.
Is it? Say you control 51 percent of the mining capacity. How do you profit from it in such a way that you don't tank the value of the good you're stealing?
>As a contractor you can earn near 20k per month pre-tax (around 7k per month post-tax).

Does that mean that taxes are (20 - 7) / 20 * 100 = 65% in NL?

I knew that taxes in some EU countries (west, north) were high, but didn't know it was that high in NL. (I am aware that you get many benefits in return for the high taxes, but thought it was in the range of 40 to 50%, in some of those countries - per what I read.)
Oh look at that, I've searched long and wide and never have been able to find it - I guess I just didn't use the right keywords. Ok all, ignore the gp :)
The problem is that many of these communities (and communities in general) are using systems like Slack for content that isn't ephemeral. Sure, use something like this to talk about the weather, what you're having for dinner or other things no one cares about in the long run.

But if you're talking about bugs, feature requests, future plans for the project, tech support... then use a proper forum or other more permanent solution, since otherwise tons of useful information just vanishes into the ether, especially with tools like Slack which have an actual message limit.

Still, they're not the only ones. Feels like almost everyone nowadays has forgotten about the value of having information stored for the long term. See the same thing with gaming communities on Discord too.
How do I know you are not keeping the money to yourself? Also data without government official id is not convincing enough.
Why stop there? Let's see someone auction their whole genome sequence.
> Your argument is that raising consumer prices hurts rich people more than poor people?

This equation has two sides, remember? Minimum wages will benefit the poorest people the most by increasing their income, all while increasing prices generally - which everyone pays for. Among the poorest you will see an increase in purchasing power, while everyone else's will be slightly reduced. This isn't hard to grasp, really.

Also, at least in Germany, there has been no statistically significant change to general employment when the minimum wage was introduced. There have however been some marginal price increases as well as reduced employment (< -2% according to some sources) in those sectors affected, which are offset by roughly 5% higher wages in those sectors, as well as increased employment in other sectors. Total employment even increased. That works out to a net positive in my book.

I didn't buy the oppositions arguments when the minimum wage was introduced, and I don't buy their same arguments now that they are against increasing it.

https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/Diskussionspapier...

http://doku.iab.de/discussionpapers/2016/dp1016.pdf
From what I could tell, they all act as music players, not as remotes. But yes, I too thought this would be something obvious.
For me, none of these budgeting tools attempt to answer the one question I think is the most common amongst people: "Do I have enough budget remaining in this month to afford this purchase?"

That's harder than it seems. For example, if you're debating a purchase on the 10th of the month, there are a bunch of bills and other purchases you're going to make the rest of the month (groceries, eating out, etc.) so you don't really know how much is remaining that you have to spend.

I use a Google Sheet that has taken me years to iterate, which knows the current date, tells me what expenses I'm going to incur over the rest of the month, along with a column of estimated numbers I guess at (cost of groceries, eating out, etc. for the rest of the month) and then tells me what my true remaining balance is.
I'd love a law that says [paraphrasing] "You must allow unsubscription via the same medium as subscription." Problem is there are far too many loopholes and potential issues, there's no way you could make the text of the law both exact enough but vague enough to work in most circumstances.

It would be better to just have a consumer watchdog that had the power to ask companies to change anti-consumer practices and use a jury to determine if something is anti-consumer (like dark patterns).
> I don't know, in my experience having high expectations seems to set you up for a higher fall and a lower upside, thus leading to less happiness.

I used to feel this way, but I no longer think that optimism and expectation have to be that closely linked. To me optimism is about having hope, not expectations. Similarly, my pessimism isn't about what I expect to happen, it's about what I fear happening.

So, I choose to balance my fear and hope.
Object oriented programming in C with examples
It's scary how much information we actually have out there without knowing.
I don't think it is particularly useful to talk about blocks reversed in this context.

In all cases, you can reverse about 1 hour worth of blocks. In practice, when wallets/exchanges/etc pick a minimum number of confirmations, they are really picking a minimum time. So, if bitcoin had double the blockrate, they wouldn't say 'well, we only require 6 blocks, so you only need ~30 minutes of an attack', but rather, 'we require ~1 hour, so you need 12 blocks of confirmation'.
Those 1000 cores seems to have been equivalent to 10% of their load. The 10% number isn't nearly as shocking.
It is not an idea that is supported by the whole Emacs community. It is an idea that is supported by the Guile community and RMS. Work has been done to make Guile Emacs work, but it is still slow (as it doesn't seem to compile elisp before running it) and somewhat experimental.

It really just needs someone to make it work more reliably and then demonstrate that it is a desirable thing not just in theory but in practise. Nothing short of doing the work would be sufficient to convince the most active Emacs developers.

The person who had been doing most of the work on Guile Emacs isn't currently making progress on this end, so other interested people are welcome to participate in the effort.

(I'm a Guiler and Emacs user and strongly support the idea of letting Emacs sit on top of the Elisp implementation in Guile.)
The American left is heavily reliant on contributions from the new 0.1% that is SV tech money. There's been a pretty noticeable drop in redistributive rhetoric in the last 10 years.

I blame Larry Ellison for inequality wayyyyyyy more than anyone that works for him. When you've been out of power for this long (presidency doesn't count because he has very little real power compared to the House and State Gov't) you have to be _really_ careful about biting the hand that feeds you.
They have already started to look for alternatives to plastic and rubber in car tires.
http://www.continentaltire.com/news/continental-constructing...
It's still a good proxy for how easy it is to do. The attacker could buy hardware, rent from people not on nicehash, etc.

It's like how companies' market caps are determined by the the last few trades, even though the last few trades probably represent .01% (or less) of the shares in the company.

Probably best to read the numbers a bit qualitatively. A coin that is 2% nicehashable would require substantial efforts (probably negotiating with a few private pools) to mount an attack; perhaps impossible for a not-connected miner. Wheres coins approaching the double digit percents probably is quite possible if you have even lukewarm connections. And those near 100% or above are likely super vulnerable.
It's really nice to see a UI component library that is built on SC. I have multiple applications using React Semantic UI and it can sometimes be a pain to extend / compose its component's styles using SC (typically when working with child elements). Usually if you want to work with SC and vendor UI systems / components, you'll be working with CSS/SASS/LESS/Etc for the vendor components and SC for your own components. With a library like this, most of your components are now all SC (which has other benefits aside from just uniform style composition) :)

Edit: I think a big point that most non-frontend developers miss about these type of libraries is that they're designed to be extended, not necessarily used out of the box. Even if it looks identical to Bootstrap, the idea is to be able to have a nice base set of UI components that we can extend with SC -- the same way we'd extend our own internal components with SC.
One obvious way would be to heavily invest in the currencies likely to shoot up in value over the corpse of the currency you’re attacking.
In this case it was Github's hack to work around no-longer-existing issues with Ruby's GC that was the issue.... Note that the speedup came from removing their hack in favour of relying on the default behaviour of Ruby 2.4
There has to be a golden middle - I neither like German-style poker-face, almost angry looking baristas nor American-style fake-as-hell smiles when being served at Starbucks. Korean style service is very close to the golden middle - very kind and helpful service with a touch of a little smile.
If this graph were true wouldn't we be seeing attacks all the time? If coins could be exploited for just hundreds of dollars they'd be rendered useless pretty quickly. This can't possibly be accurate.
I think that the basic issue here regarding privacy is that only the ones breaking it are writting. There are literally millions that wont give upvote but want it.

Google and Facebook already launched their lobbyists there and are trying to undermine it, I wonder what they will do to Japan.
California debuts ‘digital’ license plates
The public aren't lawyers. One of the points of representative democracy is supposed to be that legislators are more experienced with the practice of writing effective laws - laws that will have their intended effect and stand up in court. With the initiative process, it's easy to find text that sounds nice when you describe it in 30 seconds to people on the street but is either ineffective or has awful unexpected consequences.

That's not to say that there's no place for the initiative process, but it's not without its problems.
Not a major framework, but UIBuilder lets you use Web Components using JSX, just like React:

https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder
It's not about Facebook Pixel, but the fact that ad companies usually don't "sell the data". They share the data with third-parties, and they can also give access to their advertising platforms (where the third-parties don't have direct access to the data).
Nice collection, OP. Though the page is hypothetical it does show some viability of the cost of 51% attack, something which many people deny as uneconomical without proof.

But I am sure there will be people who will deny saying miners can refuse mined blocks and create a branch. And others who will deny this by talking up game theory mechanic of 51% attack - if someone does get 51% power then the rational thing to do is to not harm the coin. This obviously doesn't hold true for an irrational person.

And given the concerns raised for PoW for small coins, I can only say this - "Those Who Do Not Learn History Are Doomed To Repeat It." Here's one of my favorite stories from Nathaniel Popper's Digital Gold about a coin which was very small back in the day called - Bitcoin:

Laszlo’s CPU had been winning, at most, one block of 50 Bitcoins each day, of the approximately 140 blocks that were released daily. Once Laszlo got his GPU card hooked in he began winning one or two blocks an hour, and occasionally more. On May 17 he won twenty-eight blocks; these wins gave him fourteen hundred new coins that day.

Satoshi knew someone would eventually spot this opportunity as Bitcoin became more successful and was not surprised when Laszlo e-mailed him about his project. But in responding to Laszlo, Satoshi was clearly torn. If one person was taking all the coins, there would be less of an incentive for new people to join in.

“I don’t mean to sound like a socialist,” Satoshi wrote back. “I don’t care if wealth is concentrated, but for now, we get more growth by giving that money to 100% of the people than giving it to 20%.”

As a result, Satoshi asked Laszlo to go easy with the “high powered hashing,” the term coined to refer to the process of plugging an input into a hash function and seeing what it spit out.

But Satoshi also recognized that having more computing power on the network made the network stronger as long as the people with the power, like Laszlo, wanted to see Bitcoin succeed.”
My vague understanding is that negative pressure in a house is also how you get radon gas.
Also, most people don’t know how to swim. When you ask a person if they know how to swim, when you’re headed to the beach, you’ll get:

1 Sometimes: no way, I stay out of the water

2 Usually: uh, sure, yup, I can swim

3 Rarely: Totally, I used to be on a team.

My favorite follow up to #2 is “could you swim 4 laps in a pool without ever touching the bottom or stopping to take a break? That usually prompts a “what are you crazy, no way that’s super hard” response. Then I inform the person that they do not know how to swim, and that they should be extra careful.
Good question. Well if you mix an entire suburb or city block? Probably not, but I imagine that there could be some issues when those robots become cheap enough that you can get it down to house level. Even if you cannot monitor all houses everywhere you could sample houses.

And you wouldn't want that, because then your sample data becomes useless and people start to shit in their back yards, or in public parks.

That said I am still looking for the toilet that does urin analyses ala The Island, I just only want it to tell me, and let me choose to inform my doctor.
That's actually my most common use. If my organization is a mess in a given week, I just open a new sheet and go:

+ 100 Wallet
+ 800 Account
+ 50 Piggybank
- 100 Some urgent expense
- 150 Another urgent expense

And then I figure it out. It's the fastest way for me to get these calculations done.
This is incredible! What actually stops me from launching such an attack on something like Einsteinium?

One problem I found w/ the website: you have included Peercoin, even though Peercoin uses PoW only for initial coin distribution and not block validation. Block validation is done through PoS.
Except it isn't really true. Much of the economic recovery post 2008 was fueled by the FED buying assets. They've been buying stocks and bonds to keep the prices rising. So the FED has been directly handing money to people who own stocks and bonds. We can argue as to whether this is better, worse or functionally equivalent to directly taking money from the middle class, but it isn't exactly the same thing.

I personally wish that instead of printing money to buy stocks and bonds, they had enacted something like UBI instead. Give the money you're printing to people who need it. I think it's actually better for a capitalist economy, because then corporations still need to compete to get that money from consumers, instead of just being bailed out, which rewards failing corporations.
Huh? That's entirely incorrect. There's definitely a middle class that isn't working paycheck to paycheck but can't afford million dollar homes, vacas and college for their kids.
For the same wage and the same benefits ? Give me the nails.
Construction industry, not necessarily the people actually doing the construction. That is easily explained by the relatively good economic performance of the construction industry at the time the survey was conducted.
That's what happens when you transition width/height.
Doing a 51% attack on a major coin, and actually profiting from it, is much more complicated than this chart implies. Here are some of the problems you'll run into:

1. NiceHash doesn't have anything like the hashpower you need to attack a major coin such as BTC or ETH. The chart admits that NiceHash has only 2% of the capacity you need to accomplish this on Bitcoin. You'll need to start buying ASIC hardware or graphics cards to cover the other 98%. Both of those are hard to obtain in very large quantities quickly.

2. Since you have to buy the hardware, you can expect to pay much more than the NiceHash prices imply. Bitmain is one of the major suppliers of such hardware, so let's use their prices as an example. One of their top Bitcoin ASICs is a 14 TH/s unit that costs about $1,000 [1]. So you need about 2.5 million of these units at a cost of 2.5 billion dollars. Not that Bitmain has the capacity to fill such an order.

3. The cost of those ASICs is just the beginning. Have you seen photos of those Chinese data centers that have racks of mining ASICs on shelves? Each of those data centers has maybe a few percent of Bitcoin's hash rate, so you'll need to build something at least 30x larger. Your electric bill alone will exceed the GDP of some small countries. Since you've already spent billions of dollars on ASICs, hopefully you have some money left to pay it and hire a data center ops team.

4. How fast can you build all this out? Bitcoin's hash rate has grown 30% over the last month[2]. You might sink billions of dollars into this project only to discover that you've come up short.

5. Congratulations, you can now make a few million dollars by 51% attacking the blockchain. You would, for example, deposit some bitcoins with a bunch of exchanges, sell them, withdraw dollars, and then use your hashpower to unwind those deposits and put the bitcoins back into your own wallet. It'll take a few hours (or less) for every exchange to notice what you're doing and freeze withdrawals. The bitcoin price will free-fall as everyone wonders about how to prevent this next time. You may or may not be arrested and charged with wire fraud. You're done!

[1] https://shop.bitmain.com/product/detail?pid=0002018052320100...
[2] https://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate
This comment [0] has a better explanation, but this is the theoretical cost - per the 'nicehash-able' column, NiceHash only has 2% of the necessary hashing power available for rent, so an attack like this is most do-able and problematic for smaller coins.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17173402
Calculus in 20 minutes video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5GmSYipz6A

More seriously though, I like the intuitive explanations and analogies used at BetterExplained: https://betterexplained.com/calculus/

Otherwise, you're just memorizing formulas you don't really understand and will forget eventually.
But yeah, getting to an optimal daily budget is tricky. You can use a multiplier for things you know you'll spend with every day:

= Budget
- 10 Coffee shop x 30
That sure isn’t what the courts think. Police can’t just stop people at random because murderers exist. They need some reason.
Really accessible tutorial format here. More of this could get more people into APL.

(Although truthfully I don't think that char set will ever fly in a broad commercial sense)
If enough people do it, maybe this could help change the perception?

Or maybe we'll just look like the 'bros in Silicon Valley. Ok, point taken :)
Yes I suppose it wasn't. I am sorry. I can see now this argument, which seems reasonable. I had mistakenly read the previous message as complete belittlement.
A minor quibble. No one is predicting one but a 9.0 is not really impossible in the bay area. I think a careful seismologist would say "we aren't predicting one".

The Tohoku earthquake in Japan for example wasn't predicted.

"And yet the disaster of five years ago—a magnitude-9.0 megathrust earthquake off Tohoku, followed by a major tsunami and nuclear accident—came as a surprise. Until March 11, 2011, the consensus among seismologists was that a particular stretch of fault would observe certain rules, rupturing at consistent intervals in events of similar size." [1]

Another Tohoku earthquake quote:

"For decades, seismologists had believed that Japan could not experience an earthquake stronger than magnitude 8.4. In 2005, however, at a conference in Hokudan, a Japanese geologist named Yasutaka Ikeda had argued that the nation should expect a magnitude 9.0 in the near future—with catastrophic consequences, because Japan’s famous earthquake-and-tsunami preparedness, including the height of its sea walls, was based on incorrect science. The presentation was met with polite applause and thereafter largely ignored. Now, Goldfinger realized as the shaking hit the four-minute mark, the planet was proving the Japanese Cassandra right." [2]

This is an active research area and seismologists have a lot of interesting questions to figure out. For example, the Napa fault was discovered... after the Napa earthquake. [3]

And USGS scientists recently found that "the Hayward fault also extends south to connect with the Calaveras fault" and separately "the Hayward fault bends about 10 degrees to the right to connect smoothly with the Rodgers Creek fault underneath San Pablo Bay". [4]

There isn't really anything you can do with this info, a 9.0 is very very unlikely in our lifetimes, but I think it's interesting to know what the state of the art is.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...

[2] https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/shaken-beliefs-seism...

[3] http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-quake-napa-fau...

[4] https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/19/13335816/earthquake-faul...
You should add Decred to the list. It would be nice for people to see the increased cost of a 51% attack for a hybrid PoW/PoS coin.
Yes I’ve thought about this too - especially with cell phone/internet/cable/magazines - silly how you can subscribe online or in-store but need to call to cancel. With digital subscriptions it should be as easy as unsubscribing from an email list.
Organ Trail
You are implying that only competitive sport swimmers can actually swim.
I like David Mitchell said it best on the BBC series QI. He said people who do their job well shouldn't also have to be nice too it OK to "not give a shit". He respects people who work terrible jobs and act miserable it's only right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LiDTKEF1ek
Neil Postman's Technopoly was my first intro to these ideas.