skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here.

There are certain implementations out there which support non-membership proofs but most of them use empty hashes to find the non-membership proofs and the underlying SMT is unordered.

The approach taken in the above paper is novel in the sense that the way in which values in SMT are inserted make it ordered and this property is exploited to find the non-membership proofs through a window based method.
To prove a certain value Y doesn't exist in the tree, the closest two values X and Z which bound Y form the non-membership proof.

This method avoids using empty hashes and the repetitive computation which comes with it.

And Merkle Patricia Trie currently does not support Non-membership proofs.
Big ships are slow to turn.

Small ships can't handle big cargo.
I think that was by design. Trying to sweep it under the covers to avoid outrage. I share that article with friends and they're likely to read the first half of the headline and not bother reading it.
Roid rage is mostly made-up: https://examine.com/nutrition/what-is-roid-rage/
Then, to be clear, is your position that companies should be punished (fined) if there has ever been the possibility that user data was compromised? It's possible that a time-traveling quantum-powered encryption-breaking mind-reader from the future has seen your personal data. Should we fine everybody who knows anything about you?

Reckless endangerment deals with the possibility of something bad happening, but notice that word "reckless."
I got kinda lucky and can now avoid all this. When I first signed up, I used an email address I had in 2007. I now no longer have that one, so can't check it there. The only other email address I ever used with it was my university one, which I needed to join their network. Never added any of the other ones I have, and that one is now deleted. So I never see their endless emails or anything of the such; it's great.
Risk aversion is why commercial flight is so safe, though.
Spectre was announced 5 months ago. Even if Intel had a fully laid out and tested new design, with new masks and any changes to the production pipeline the instant it was dropped, just fabbing the chips I've been told has over 6 months lead time.
I have a proof for you. Please check the single core performance here:

iPhone XS: 4794 scores
https://browser.geekbench.com/ios_devices/56

The newest Xeon E-2176M: 4900 scores
https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/2500

the difference is only 2%...
came here to say just that. the gall of google, claiming at the release of g+, that '+' was never an official qualifier and quotes were always the standard.
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Now that Google+ is going away, can we have the +string operator back in Google Search, to force inclusion of a single string (instead of having to use double quotes)?
I'm not saying I agree with OP, just explaining what I think they meant by stating that they were "cheating."
> Google is shutting down its long-neglected Facebook competitor Google+ following the disclosure of a vulnerability that could have resulted in third-party developers accessing private data from around 500,000 users, the company announced Monday.

Source: https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/google-plus-shut-down-...
Incredibly powerful. Such great life lessons that have presented themselves at a moment of loss of life. I love the passage "Alex is in charge now" as a response to giving in to the temptations that would have dragged the author further down.
IANAL but it doesn't seem that the way they define a breach (https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/breach-notificat...) includes issues that provably haven't been exploited.
Take the guns off the officers, watch their skills at de-escallation improve instantly.
25 years of Wired
That is far safer for the driver and passengers than a gasoline fire. People only fear it because it is unfamiliar.
> They will keep it active as an internal network

Probably, but the key point made in the article is that it will continue as an enterprise product, not just an internal one (though presumably Google is one of the enterprises that will continue using it.)
If you are willing to learn good German eventually, there are many place in Germany that could meet your requirements. It is relative easy to get a freelancer's Visa, and this gives you much time to learn German to pass the B1 exam required for a permanent stay. The healthcare alone will make it worth it, but the intellectual climate is strong everywhere, even among stay-at-home-partners.
At the moment I don't think there is a frontend language/framework which compiles to WASM and is actually worth using, at least from a perspective of frontend productivity. For performance or porting legacy code, WASM is already useful.

I mean, yes, there are things like Blazor or similar things for Rust or Nim, but these aren't yet compelling to me.
We posted this a while back, just a simple tool to make the photo exports a bit better, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16682940
Here are a couple of resources you could use to find active places:

https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/

https://nomadlist.com/forum/
To add substance:

From the nhsta site (https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.dot.gov/files/documents/12...)

Observations on various aspects:

* "Because the lower the flash point, the more
hazardous the fire risk, flammable electrolyte solvents in Li-ion batteries are more or less
as hazardous as conventional vehicular fuels."

* "Because the narrower the flammability range, the less hazardous the
fire risk, flammable electrolytic solvents in Li-ion batteries are about as hazardous as
conventional vehicular fuels, and certainly less hazardous than hydrogen."

* "Because the lower the minimum ignition temperature, the more hazardous the fire risk,
flammable electrolytic solvents are not as hazardous as conventional vehicular fuels."

* "Because the lower the minimum spark energy, the
more hazardous the fire risk, flammable electrolytic solvents are probably about as
hazardous as conventional vehicular fuels."

* "Because the lower the maximum flame temperature the lower
the exposure risk (skin burns) to fire, electrolytic solvents are expected to pose no more
of a severe risk to burn injuries than conventional vehicular fuels, gasoline and diesel."

* "Because of the probable similarity in the magnitude of the maximum flame temperatures,
if the combustion of the electrolytic solvents were confined, the resulting overpressure
that could build up would maximize at about the same levels as for the other flammable
fuels, meaning that the burst damage that would result from Li-ion explosions would also
be comparable to that from conventional vehicular fuels."

* "The thermal energy expected to be released upon initiation and combustion of the
electrolytic solvents would be less than that of gasoline and diesel fuel."
Curious to see where this puts first person view (FPV) flying. I very much enjoy watching this sport grow, but with these new regulations the operator would have to be in line sight at all times.
Thanks for catching that. Did I mention we're still moving fast and breaking things? ... Sorry. The tutorial text should be fixed, will be looking into the Alan Connect app.
That's a requirement in general for CA.

https://www.oag.ca.gov/privacy/databreach/reporting

If there is a reasonable belief that data was exposed, all of the exposed CA residents need to be notified, and if > 500, the Atty General of CA needs to additionally be notified.
Pet peeve: I wish people would call them persistent or fork-on-write, but functional at least is better than immutable.
Yea I'm actually OK with them being risk adverse, because I don't really want to have to worry about the plane I am flying in suddenly dropping out of the sky for any number of reasons.
Begging the question would be something like you disagreeing that any choice exists at all.
I wonder if Project Strobe is also behind Google's recent effort to limit the permissions of Chrome extensions. So far I'm really liking the direction they're taking with this; making permissions optional and more fine-grained.
> Maybe they are planning to come back with pure electric vehicles sold only at dealerships they own under a different sub-brand? Sort of like Saturn.

They're betting their entire North American future on light trucks and SUVs.
The use of the word "sunset" as a verb in posts like this is fucking infuriating. Yes, software types know what it means, but this is a consumer product with tens of millions of users, who have no familiarity with that term.

It's a weasel word. The way to say this is in plain English. We're closing, shutting down, turning off, discontinuing, or something.
Serious question, is anybody going to be outraged by sunsetting G+?
> It's the norm in healthcare (HIPAA), disclosure is required for breaches that affect 500+ persons, and even <500 person breaches have to be reported annually to HHS and to the individual at the time of discovery.

> https://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Medicare-Learning...

> edit: less-than sign wrong way*

Breaches, not vulnerabilities. The discussion is not whether or not breaches should be disclosed[0], but whether newly discovered and believed-to-be-unexploited vulnerabilities should be disclosed.

[0]: They should of course, after a reasonable period in which to patch the vulnerability used.
That would be Asian American culture then, except Americans tend to not notice that their culture is not everywhere and needs qualification.
The idea of circles sounds fantastic on paper but it's simply too much work for the common user.

For most of the posts users would make, users would probably spend more time thinking about which circles to enable than actually writing the post. It's a headache and it leads to a poor experience, it feels like a hurdle, something you must do; it makes posting less natural.

Facebook on the other hand offers the same functionality but it's "buried" so you can use it at your convenience.
> Basically giving up on ever owning in a city that I want to live in.

I'm going to guess that "in a city that I want to live in" is a fairly short list. In most of the country, a few million gets you a palace.

You might consider re-evaluating where you want to live. Most of the rest of the country isn't horrible.
> Users can grant access to their Profile data, and the public Profile information of their friends, to Google+ apps, via the API.

Interesting, wasn't this basically the same problem that Facebook had with Cambridge Analytica?
Note well: those who have been accusing Apple of lying about this are now saying that the company is lying to Congress. Lying to Congress is, shall we say, not a great idea. This is a serious accusation. You can make it, of course- but be aware of what exactly you're accusing them of at this point.
Creating Gartner like Hype cycle using Wikipedia page views data
>> Given hundreds of acquaintances, this is a pain, and made me give up on Facebook altogether.

Sounds like you need https://circles.app
I suppose many readers of HN already know this, but CPython is the name of the original and most popular implementation of Python; it is the implementation found at python.org. It is written in C and hence is called CPython.
I recently looked for an insurance quote for a model 3. At least through esurance it was going to be cheaper than my 07 BMW X3 to insure. I am in New York where all insurance feels cheap compared to when I lived in Michigan.
I bought an intel chip a few months ago because ryzen 7nm isn't out yet and I use a high frequency display. At this point, it's blatantly obvious intel is playing catchup, with worse SMT,worse node size,and less flexible architecture
Did you read TFA?

This is for pre-revenue companies. The expectation is that se will turn into revenue in many tech business models. Certainly for the type where you have to capture a dominant fraction of users to get the hockey stick curve.
Using metrics as goals is a key feature of bureaucracy.

In meritocracy, direct results should matter.
Not me. But it reinforces my commitment to never get attached to any Google service.

The new GMail is also helping me with that.
If you add users to your model, you can generate a new "from_zero" migration that includes an initial user and password. Run

./.alan/dataenv/system-types/datastore/scripts/generate_migration.sh migrations/from_zero systems/server/model.lib.link --bootstrap
There is no way Facebook would ever implement something like this. The whole point of the Facebook feed tinkering is to force you to wade through a river of shit to find the nuggets you are interested in. The feed algorithm is all about making that river just slightly short of unbearable, because the river is where they stuff all the ads. If they provided you with useful filters it would make the revenue opportunities more visible.
I doubt anybody cares about Google+, honestly. In fact I'm happy to see it die, after all the pain it's caused me (YouTube integration)
I think many towns/cities with good size liberal arts colleges are interesting and affordable - outside the big metro areas.
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In a surprise to no one, it doesn't run at 5 Ghz like their demo did. Still, 4.3 is very impressive for that many cores. I'm curious how it stacks up against the 32-core threadripper.
Marketing. New names make it appear as though progress is made.
How many FTEs do they have running G+? There are a bunch of OSS people that use it because Facebook sucks and Twitter is toxic.

The good will from the OSS community in maintaining G+ can be easily paid for in the 250% growth you referenced. And please, save me from the 'we need to double down and focus on products that matter' - no, you need to maintain some credibility for your product ownership.

That's why I don't spend a single dollar with GCE.
https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/google-exposed-user-data-fe...
Facebook has that feature now too, it's called "friend lists". Unfortunately it's a much less prominent feature and harder to use.
> never depend on anything from Google

They're shutting it down precisely because no one was depending on it. How would anyone depend on a social network without any users?
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The big thing isn't so much the performance of WASM by itself, but rather that this performance enables the use of data models which are different from Javascript.

Typescript, Coffeescript and a host of similar options have essentially the same data model. What makes other languages, like Java, Rust or Python actually useful is their way of handling data. Which is why you can't transcribe these languages to Javascript trivially.

Still, the ecosystem of javascript is a lot better than the languages which compile to WASM as of right now. I guess that will change...
Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't Webflow a substitute for coding HTML and CSS more than a UX/UI design tool?

Edit: Also their pricing is just ridiculous. Static hosting is almost free these days, and they charge about $30 per user per month for unlimited projects.
And they're killing Inbox, too.
Don't get married; you will regret it. And for heaven's sake don't get married again; you will regret that even more.

This advice may not scale.
Having a security disclosure policy and following it to the letter for everyone (including Google) is suddenly an "unfair competitive process".
How newlines affect Linux kernel performance
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If you're new to vegetarianism and veganism I can recommend the Facebook group "Friendly and pragmatic vegans and vegetarians" which is a group where you can find support without the judgemental and elitist attitudes being tolerated. I'm not aware of any such group outside of Facebook.
I mean you really can't argue that Google's attempts to move away from relying on ad revenue for most of its earnings have been successful
Where the US sits on this politically, or sits in practice?

In practice, the US has cut emissions more than any signer of the Paris Accords. That's very much not shameful in my book.
> Likely they will do neither

Right, they likely have already gotten everything they wanted from the article, there's no reason for them to damage their reputation by 'losing confidence' in it, and providing more evidence to support the article won't net them as much publicity/clicks/whatevers as working on the Next Big Article will.
Everyone always says "this always failed because it didn't do X," where X is anything they like.

It's clear that it failed. It's less clear that the reason is necessarily any of the ones you gave. Every dominant social network has been a walled garden, and, contrariwise, every attempt to create a major social network based around federation and open standards has, so far, failed.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see one succeed, and who knows, maybe Mastodon will overtake Facebook one day, but I don't see any evidence in the Google+ shutdown that suggests that this is the case.
Erm, Facebook did implement something like this. Shortly after Google+ came out. You can still assign friends to different groups.
TDP is quite high on ryzen chips, and they auto overclock. The 2nd gen will go as high as it can with safe voltages, provided thermals and power are in check
Serious answer: I would allow connections to current social networks. Maybe even bill it as an aggregator of sorts, so you can pull in (just for display purposes) as much data from linked social networks as possible. Give people a real reason to use your app without making them sacrifice the connections they've already made.
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Google doesn't need to crank-start anything. They just release a new product with invite codes and people go nuts trying to get them.

If the product is good, people will use it. If it's not, they won't, in the end. G+ wasn't good.
It’s true that police militarization is a problem for everyone. The fact remains that any particular person of color is more likely to be killed by police than any particular white person is, and that’s a meaningful difference in the lives of persons of color.
FB has been slowly making friend lists even less accessible than before, so no wonder nobody's using them. Currently just making a status update visible only to a given list requires a ridiculous exertion: Open privacy dropdown -> select "More" -> select "See all" (the fuck?) -> click "Custom" -> TYPE a prefix of the friend list name in the combobox -> select the list you want from the dropdown.
non-paywall version: http://archive.is/rpuA1
it seems that there is a community working on that https://amd-osx.com/
"Of all people killed in police/civilian altercations, 93% of them are civilians"
I didn't say GDPR would apply in this situation, and the WSJ story suggests it wouldn't because of when it was discovered. All I said was that GDPR was great (obviously we'd only see the benefits from it after it had gone into effect), and this latest scoop bodes well for the political movement to enact equivalent legislation in the US.
Google shuts down Google+ after API bug exposed details for over 500,000 users
Lin is awesome, but reading this nice article I have one noob question.

> We took the code that C++ was running — the entry stub — and made it directly callable from JIT code. When the engine goes from JavaScript to WebAssembly, the entry stub un-boxes the values and places them in the right place. With this, we got rid of the C++ trampolining.

So they replaced unboxing C++ trampoline with entry stub. But isn't that stub technically written in C++ too?
Oh, I see, reading your previous comment again – you interpreted it as a “list of all the groups that need to be wary of police”. It’s not that, it’s just about “danger” in a broad sense.
> I'm going to guess that "in a city that I want to live in" is a fairly short list. In most of the country, a few million gets you a palace.

In most by geographic area, sure, but most of the country by geographic area is sparsely populated because, to a rough approximation, no one wants to live there (at least, after accounting for work opportunity.) In urban centers that aren't going through collapse, it doesn't go nearly that far, though outside of Manhattan and San Francisco (even in the same metros) it'll still get you a pretty nice place.
Gaming is the only space where intel is has an advantage over ryzen. It's better or as good in the rest of the workflows already
Have you tried Marvelapp?[1]. It's a bit clunky at times but generally pretty fast.

1. https://marvelapp.com/
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Not sure this makes sense from someone who is totally unconnected to the situation, but thank you for doing that.
Or Chrome, or Android, or YouTube, or Maps, or News, or Docs, or Translate or anything else that has a large number of users. Google Reader had some big fans, but never a large number of users. They don't get rid of stuff with lots of eyeballs.
I’m a little surprised that making cross-language inlining trivial wasn’t (apparently) a design goal of the original WASM spec.

(Maybe it’s functionally easy but getting the heuristics right is hard? Curious what the primary obstacles are for Mozilla or others.)
Common "business as usual" technique. In a previous small company I used to work at, often when a senior engineer was leaving, the departure announcement email was mentioned as a last thing after a couple of "good news" announcements.
"No one" at Google scale might actually be quite a few people...?
"The bulk of Google’s $110.8 billion revenue in 2017 came from its proprietary advertising service, Google AdWords."

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/020515/busin...
It's a technical paper which describes the theory behind the data structure/algorithm containing proofs which people can verify independently.

I'll be releasing a project soon which incorporates the concepts mentioned in the framework.
Where will Linus Torvalds blog now?
> The idea of "circles", where you had a circle for "acquaintances" "friends", "family" would be great on, say, Facebook, as it would allow me to filter down my feed to just the people I really care about but still have a connection to more distance acquaintances.

You can do that already, with lists.

Unfortunately, the UI for lists isn't great, but when you figure out how (it took me long enough), you can view a feed of just people on a certain list or post to just one list if you want.
> > > Why? What is it that wasm or c++ provides you in making a DOM call that modern JS does not?

> > The ability to write loops involving non-trivial computations without spamming a hundred million heap objects

> How does being able to call the DOM from webasm give you that? That's what webasm is for in the first place.

The tell parent comment that, not me.
> Logs show that it has never been used by anyone

Yes, because the #1 thing on the mind of someone who gained unauthorized access (e.g. a remote execution vulnerability) to a system is to cover their tracks, which includes things like doctoring logs.
there's a decent sized group of people who are outraged when google shuts down any product, regardless of if they used it or had even heard about it before.
This is a very cynical view of things. I'm not a product manager - but I can't imagine one sitting in a room thinking about all the evil ways to make the feed harder for people to find relevant posts. I can, however, perfectly imagine a PM who is "extremely numbers driven" to look a bad version of the algorithm that increases the time users spend shifting through shit and assume that the algorithm is a huge success because it increased "retention" and reduced bounce-rate.
The more infuriating part is that it doesn't even work on mobile FF. So the few times I accidentally click on a G+ link from my Google assistant feed, I don't even get the benefit of seeing a post with just a link to the real content.