skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice!

> In some cases this can be quite significant, and reduce the attack cost by up to 80%.

I get how block rewards bring the net cost down, but where does the 80% number come from?
Polymer is pretty integrated with shadow dom iirc, although last time I used it I had to use a bunch of polyfills.
I’m intrigued, but friendly advice: this page could really use a paragraph, or even a sentence, explaining what it does and why I might want it. The metaphor “bookshelf for your MOOCs” isn’t quite clear enough for me to just blindly fill out a registration form.
Represent the problem programatically. If there's some reason data is missing, use a symbol :idk, :not-provided, etc.

Programs DO things, use what you're doing to describe your program, whenever possible.

In a better world, max([]) # -> None(T)

But sometimes we have to get creative...
California is jealous at the EU's expansion of power.

Politicians(even in CA) don't care about privacy or people. Otherwise California wouldn't have the worst homeless problem in history. They care about expanding their power and reach.

"One of the initiative's biggest backers is Alastair Mactaggart, a San Francisco real estate developer"

SF real estate developer. You couldn't make this up.
Other languages are complicated too.

Just compare Java 10, C# 7.3, Python 3.6, .... to their initial designs.

However I do agree with you and Bjarne, having also submitted this link awhile ago.

C++20 should have been fixing what was left from C++17, specially regarding concepts and modules.

Instead there are a plethora of other issues, and some of them it isn't even clear what is coming with C++23.
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I'm glad we live in a reality where this isn't the case
Feels like a mini calca. Nice, thanks!
There are many business that “sell” data under the second clause TO both Facebook and Google which could be impacted.

The Facebook Pixel is definitely disclosing data to Facebook, even if they aren’t being paid for it. And they probably use data from the Facebook Pixel across many advertisers for Facebook’s own business purposes.
I will support this, but only if IBM brings back the beam-spring keyboard.
>> Can you cite any parts of the article that support your view on this?

How about this: "In the interview, Pearl dismisses most of what we do in ML as curve fitting. While I believe that's an overstatement (conveniently ignores RL for example), it's a nice reminder that most productive debates are often triggered by controversial or outright arrogant comments. Calling machine learning alchemy was a great recent example."

When a person is dismissive of an entire field and claims to have a better way, that often comes off as arrogant (even if it is true). My interpretation is "harsh" while the author uses the word "overstatement". You'll also see "arrogant" in there and that last line calling it "alchemy" really has to be interpreted with negative connotations. Perhaps I read more into it than was written, but that was the impression I got.
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Actually, there is a qualitative difference in play. It is reached at millions USD in (relatively) liquid assets or highly concentrated political power.

It is the potential to do almost anything w here only another big player or a whole society can blunt it and not necessarily effectively.

It is the difference between playing the rules and making the rules.
Living a life aiming for this simplicity seems like a worthwhile endeavor.
Here's my thought: the only thing that will save us from this insanity is driverless cars.

When the Constitution was written, there weren't cars. You walked or rode a horse. There were no licenses or insurance, there were no DUIs. There was no legal requirement to prove that you were legally entitled to operate a motor vehicle on a public road.

These stops seem to largely depend on our relationship with driving cars. The necessary evil of DUI checkpoints is obviously a crutch they're leaning on heavily.

At a minimum, self-driving cars will force them to work a bit harder to scheme up clever legal interpretations allowing them to continue operating.
Are we losing humanity with data-driven medicine?
It’s probably also possible to identify people based on the combination of their car color, built timestamp, model and specifically ordered extras. Shall storing these, without a name, be made illegal then and forcing someone to save these in a database to hire a lawyer to ubderstand their legal position? Just because if the name is added to such a database of cars produced, it will be personal identifying?

Put another way:

If the goal is to prevent certain actions by making them illegal
and a given boundary can already ensure that, whats the point in widening that boundary even more?
HA! Well your budgeting tool is nevertheless quite minimal and beautiful. Thx for sharing. ;)
While YNAB is great, it's a shame they moved to a subscription based service.
Ask HN: How to overcome fear?
fear of talking to others, fear of speaking in crowd, fear of expressing in English. Suggest any hack or trick to overcome fear.
Census Canada has an income explorer that includes wealth percentiles by age (and sex, by province etc)

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/dv-...

It's quite a stark difference in the percentiles from 20 to 40 to 60.

Slate is absolutely right that without further controls for things like age, these percentiles are misleading
That seems decent but I don't know much about this space (I know that 60k€ as a PHP/Symfony developer is kind of a hard to break ceiling no matter the experience).

Do your ads have a salary range? Employed people tend to ignore those who don't.
Upon closer inspection, it seems like this law would only apply to large business or businesses that actually sell personal information. If that's the case then it's more reasonable than I initially thought.

I was concerned that every blog and startup might need to implement the functionality, but it seems like that might not be the case.
I suppose if I wanted to try my luck at getting spat on I could offer a French person some red wine in a brown paper coffee cup.

More seriously there needs to be some compromise between the ecological impact of the container and undoing some of the cultural value associated with it, in this case a red wine glass or a beer glass.

With a plastic beer or wine glass you can at least propose some sort of toast and hear some sort of "clink" when you bring the glasses together, the same's not true of paper. People are going to resent the EU if bureaucrats are seen to take away the simple pleasures of life.
That's a good point. Thanks for the feedback! I will see if I can add something to provide more context. I'm assuming you're visiting from mobile?
There is a big difference between being in the target market for discretionary investments and small-time political fundraising, and being able to buy influence.
I keep hearing that and then I go to an irc room and ask a question and sit... and sit some more... I think I’m at 5 times in a row now that no one even answered. I am done wasting my time there. Irc might not be totally dead but despite all the denial it’s definitely on its way out. And good riddance.
My greatest accomplishment in the last year was deleting 30-50 thousand lines of code. I've written probably a thousand. Some days I spend 6 hours debugging something to change 4 lines.
No matter what shine Microsoft or Gates have since put on their actions, this should never be forgotten. This was a person and company so greedy that billions upon billions weren't enough, complete control was necessary.

Has Gates ever come out and acknowledged that his actions at that time were wrong?

In retrospect it's kind of amazing that the government even took the actions they did there. It's hard to imagine today. The article touches on it, but the big companies seem to have wizened up to it. They don't need or want complete control, they just want control of their customers. Every once in awhile they'll send off a 1984-ish salvo against each other, but actually outright winning is too costly. It's way too productive to just screw over customers, and they all do it, because they can.

The discussion about Google and others at the end is interesting:

He understood completely what Microsoft was doing, and, as I like to say, there are only about eight plays in the monopolist’s playbook. He saw all of them. So that when he got market power [as the CEO of Google], he could execute those same kinds of exclusionary plays and he knew exactly what to do. He knew what worked for Microsoft and what didn’t. It’s a very, very parallel situation. … There are no coincidences here.

Unfortunately with government as it is in the US, it's probably not going to save us. It's going to take new, better companies to beat the current giants. Hopefully some of you are trying.

As an aside, this video of the Windows 95 launch is great. Ballmer is naturally acting like an idiot, but there's Gates in the background, so seemingly mild, but whom was in fact one of the most cutthroat businessmen in the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAkuJXGldrM.
Androids Toolkit is much more powerful because it allows custom layouting engines.

If web components was just a port of the Android toolkit we'd have canvas with accessibility, CSS grid as library not in the browser, and usable recycler views.
> I get how block rewards bring the net cost down, but where does the 80% number come from?

It's a rough number - In the case of Bitcoin, the miner receives 12.5 BTC (+ transaction fees that I will ignore for now) per block, with a block time of 10 minutes, so they will receive 75BTC per hour, or $544,275. In this case it wouldn't be possible to actually rent anywhere near this much hash power at this price, but for smaller coins it would be possible to do so.
He spoiled The Pledge for me.
The difference between comfort and struggle, hmm?

Three real question is what the 9.8% can do even if completely united to fix the problem that the top 0.1% cannot stop. Unless you mean politicians (who are typically in top) - because power and wealth are related but nor equivalent - and transferable plus exchangeable.
Naturally, consumers can now keep their computers until they break, the 2 years upgrade cycle is gone.

However when those consumers buy a new computer, it is still plain old Windows.
Here's an article that discusses v3: https://vuejsdevelopers.com/2018/03/26/vue-cli-3/.
I guess I wasn’t clear, because my point is generally that moving the logic to an else block in any supported control structures (if, for, try, ...) doesn’t necessarily make it clearer or cleaner.
In order to get to 51% share you would need 104% of the current hashing rate. Did you consider that?
I mostly agree, except that bank connection is a moving target and they pay a vendor to supply the connection logic.

Is it ridiculous that I have to pay money every month just to get my transactions in a useful format? Yes. But that isn't their fault, in my opinion.

They charge $7/mo and Netflix charges $11, while I personally get way more value from my $7 going to YNAB. :)
You can't buy games that are in the iOS store from within the Steam app
I worked for a small family run car advertising magazine. The company had two departments, the sales/photography staff who sold ads to car dealers and collected info about each car and the graphics staff who put together the advertising from the car info and photos. There was always a lot of grousing between the two camps that one side did things that the other side couldn't understand and made their jobs harder.

The owner devised a plan where each of the employees had to work for a few shifts with the other group to see what their jobs entailed. It made for a better understanding between them and gave each side an idea that the other jobs weren't exactly easy. Made for a better working relationship between the two groups.
>Even if we accept the questionable assertion that no study of any aspect of the mind so far has been objective, you have provided no argument that it cannot be so in principle.

Perhaps if we had aliens or god study our minds, then it could be objective and not influenced by the biases of our own human minds. There's no argument that they can't exist in principle.
Not all cryptocurrency users are anti-government.
Your comments were somewhat interesting until you got 'this is as marx predicated'. Yeah, you'll have to be more specific about what exactly he predicted and how it matches today. I think today's world would be very surprising to the world of 25 years ago.
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Almost half of cryptocurrency and Bitcoin bros identify as libertarian
Just ask Ted Cruz.
Thanks :). I like the theme. Is that a custom one ?
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Is this really accurate? So 51% attack on bitcoin is around 100btc? Given the advantage of such an attack, won't more users want to do it? Also, won't nation states easily come in on this and attack the integrity of these coins?
Where I grew up there was around 60% poverty, and most of the poverty was communicated via terrible life choices passed one generation to the next. Every one I know who left have done well and that includes people who join the military to those who went to collage. So much of poverty is about the culture you are born into which translates into bad decision and poor outcomes. If we could do anything destroying the cultures that create these conditions would get us more for our buck.
I don't think it's a French or German, or even European specificity.

I've seen payments delay happens with French companies (one of my last jobs, we were blacklisted from buying servers from Dell directly, the company was a bit short on money, so this late payment was in fact an internal unsaid policy to reduce the need for working capital).

But I've also seen it with a big US company, professional phone subscriptions of all employees were suspended for a day because of late bills, and we were afraid at one point to have some of our racks cut-off because unpaid datacenter bills. I don't know in that case if it was because of an internal policy or plain old bureaucracy and internal delays in this company.
Judging from the article, it relies mostly on "trusted accounts" who often tweet things they hear before they substantiate and file articles on them (but can certainly be fooled themselves) and can pick up some image-driven false stories by identifying the same image in earlier contexts (which presumably has some issues with stock images too...)
> there are techniques to cull voxels that aren't visible

Culling invisible voxels is fine. But to reconstruct a normal with sufficient precision, I’d say you need to sample quite large area of nearby visible voxels. IMO the RAM bandwidth costs are prohibitive.

As far as I understand it’s impossible to do in screen space because that would introduce artifacts near the edges of the objects.

With traditional rasterizers, accurate per-pixel normals are very cheap to compute, i.e. some computations in the VS, then interpolation within triangle implemented in hardware, then a single lookup from the normal map in the PS.

> lack of proper hardware support

What hardware support would you need for them? GPUs are very efficient doing many kinds of general-purpose computing. For the storage, modern GPUs support volume tiled resources, at the first sight this feature in D3D 11.3 and 12.0 looks very suitable for these voxels: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn9...
Yes! I don't doubt it was/is a useful tool for some purposes, just commenting on using related techniques to tackle text search.
> Otherwise California wouldn't have the worst homeless problem in history.

My understanding, from living in Vancouver BC (which also has quite the homeless problem) is that homeless people will migrate from other areas of a country to find the place with the best combination of 1. local weather amenable to living outdoors, and 2. social programs with high ROI (i.e. programs that give you the most benefits for the least bureaucratic folllowing-up.)

No matter how quickly/effectively you deploy solutions for the local homeless problem in a city, of said city is the optimum place for people to live while homeless, you won’t see the end of the problem. (Unless you also have the lobbying power to make changes that solve homeless problems for the entire country.)
Who are they paying, out of curiosity?
But why not force all sites to give you clear information so you are informed. So when I follow some link and land on a "intresting" site I should be informed that continuing navigating means I agree that Google,Facebook, other 20 companies will be informed about me opening this link.
If I do not agree I will be forced to leave.

The only work the site owners needs to do is to have a list of all the companies they sell the data too, show that list to you, and save your acceptance in a cookie.

For more complex apps like Facebook that sell more data or mine your private messages/emails,purchases, music and movies you watch they should also display the exact thing they sell or share for free.

My point, the companies would have just to inform, would not be forced to give you access.
If you have 51%, you can get 100% of the blocks. In fact, doing so is necessary for a double spend attack.
It's important to note that this doesn't include block rewards, so these attacks are all actually less expensive than shown.
>This is a totally misleading calculation for the largest currencies.

That's not the only way it's misleading. Peercoin is listed as 8,559% available on nicehash, but peercoin is a proof of stake coin. It doesn't use hashpower to secure it's transactions, so it's not vulnerable to a 51% hash power attack (although it is vulnerable to other kinds of 51% attack).
This often encourages bloated and less elegant, simple code
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I imagine the same way the article's array does: with an (interplanetary) version of sneakernet [0], taking independent measurements which are then delivered to be correlated in one place.

I think you could keep atomic clocks on Mars and Earth in sync with extremely accurate calculation of the Earth-Mars distance at any time, and thus the propagation delay between them.

EDIT: only one star!!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope#/media...
So you can perform a double spend attack on the largest crypto currency with a market cap of $124 billion dollars for only $600 thousand?

For criminals who know what they're doing, this looks like a very juicy target to me.
B2B buyers spend more when buying online. If you give them what they need
Even without price there are other mechanisms - accumulation of rich in specific places by word of mouth alone... where the influence and money is accumulated and applied.

We see this even in primary education even in Europe, even in non-private schools.
Then there are extracurriculars which take money amd time...

A typical person out of place won't be able to keep up.
> Consider all coins using the same function to be the same family and the one with the most work and power to be the most valid. So there are sha256 coins, scrypt coins, equihash coins, etc. In the case of sha256 the most immune to attack is bitcoin. Everything else is massively vulnerable.

This is a really good point, and part of what I am hoping people come to understand from this website. Ignoring the risk of renting power from NiceHash to launch an attack, large existing miners could easily switch to a smaller coin for a few hours to attack it, and typically it would be very profitable.
Lots of people sniff glue, doesn't mean they should.
I can't get the math to work to reach 475 million American adults.

Our current population is only 347 million and the birthrate is about 1.25%. Running a total for the last 20 years or so I can't get more than 300 million adults or so.

Any math folks that want to analyze the number of unique adults entering/leaving the US from 1990 to 2011?
Or geoengineering, with the incredibly high risks that entails.
I actually just now took the time to read this. A good (20-30 min) read. +1
yeah Im confused as to why a proof of stake currency is even in the list
I believe the newer proposal addresses that flaw. But to be honest, if Google can't build a service without theft, it should simply not operate. New solutions will be able to fill the gap.
Sounds like a bunch of anti-vaxxers coming together and saying vaxxing doesn't work for them. This is the same reason why pilots are being trained not to listen to their own senses when flying: because those senses work against their reason.

I can see how a single fan blowing right into someone's face could be more efficient at cooling that person than the same fan working for the whole room; but frankly you also forget about all of the other pupils who aren't under the direct "sunlight".
For those more familiar with emacs; what happened with the idea of moving to guile scheme? Is it done? Abandoned?
Driverless cars won't save you, and this is described as an immigration issue.

The police will end up with the same remote access to cars as they have to phones.
It is not just this. Pulling strings without separating out housing is enough.

If you build a new school it will still start or with the segregated out "worse material". The only way out is indeed to forcibly randomize and disperse - Even then there will be local social clustering.
But what if the personal information is not sold but shared for free, will this law apply? I can see the big comnpanies finding so many loopholes in this.
Mayor players (exchanges, bitpay) could decide to just ignore the dominated branch of the blockchain, by requiring that block n has hash h. This would lead to a fork similar to etherium vs etherium classic.

Alternatively they could start not to accept the spoiled coins. If account a double spends x, they track where the coin goes, let’s say b accepts y:=x-? coin then a still has x-y spoiled coins and b now has y spoiled coins. Now you just don’t accept transactions from accounts that have spoiled coins. Would work with bitcoin.
Also the government can come up with similar regulations to crack down on bitcoin.
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Or, use this:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KPZN5UC

(Or something like it)
All the buskers at the festival I went to last year did this already, some sort of wrist-mounted change the music device...
Proof: https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/920709146789515272?lang=e...
It's a window unit: http://www.purifresh.com/erv.html It's the only such kind I could find when we were in the market a few years ago. (Was renting a place with mold issues.) Works well for a single room. It's wonderful to pull fresh air in during the winter.

We also have its accompanying HEPA unit: http://www.purifresh.com/cleanroom.html They can be linked (as http://www.purifresh.com/freshairsystem.html) or used separately. (Apparently this is out-of-stock and being redesigned.)
Zulip has "topics" inside streams (kind of what they call channels).
This is the theoretical cost of a 51% attack if there is enough hashing power available via NiceHash. If the Nicehash-able column is >> 100%, this is very do-able. I go into more detail on the about page [0].

[0] https://www.crypto51.app/about.html
Is hash ownership transparent enough that you can say that? Given the possibility of shell company ownership..
Wired wishes they hadn't destroyed 100k of Bitcoins
I don't think multi-algorithm is taken into account for multi-algorithm coins. Several coins have multiple independent mining algorithms each with their own difficulty, and need to be attacked simultaneously.
Race, class, and prestige are all intertwined in the US.
Very nice and extensive write-up.have always been curious about these Nordic devices that seem to be so pervasive these days.
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