skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. A log file under Paxos, for example, is not a blockchain.

A blockchain is a chain of blocks. A block is a persistent record of all the information required for the consensus process, which is held onto by a node after the consensus process has completed for that node. A new blockchain node bootstrap-syncs to the network by just receiving blocks at random from peers and then evaluating the consensus rules against those blocks in order to decide what its deduced copy of the "chain" shall look like. And you can never throw those blocks away (just keeping the transaction log), either, because a new peer might want to bootstrap itself from you.

This is not how multi-master sync in e.g. etcd or Postgres works. In those, consensus is a process that happens between all the nodes registered to a given cluster at any point in time. Each consensus-step happens between a known, fixed set of peers (fixed for the duration of that step, that is), consuming a fixed set of data that must be the same on all peers (the database before the update), and producing a new artifact (the updated database) that should be identical on all peers. After the consensus step completes, the inputs required to re-evaluate that particular consensus step are discarded by all peers. You can't go back and "watch history" happen again. You can only know what you've got right now.

But, luckily, since what you've got right now is an append-only file, you can just read it and see everything that's happened historically. It's just a logical history, though, not the history of the consensus process itself.

New nodes in such a system don't re-evaluate history to "reach consensus." They just pick a bootstrap peer to trust and slave themselves to it, synchronizing until they're an exact mirror of it. But—because all the nodes in the cluster keep their state in lockstep under consensus anyway—every node that is "in consensus" is as good as any other node that is "in consensus" for bootstrapping from. (And if you happen to bootstrap from a node that is lying about being "in consensus", then you'll quickly find that you can't obey the consensus protocol with the rest of the cluster using the data you bootstrapped.)

A blockchain is a very specific kind of distributed database architecture. Just having a distributed append-only database does not automatically make something a blockchain. You can have distributed append-only databases that aren't blockchains.

(Heck, there's an even more trivial case: a distributed append-only database owned by one party. How do you build that? Just deploy a master and some read-replicas, and tell the master to be append-only by policy! It should be pretty obvious, I hope, that that is not a blockchain.)
Reevaluating my outlook on sleep
Yeah, I think we could. There are definitely a bunch of ways to somewhat mitigate over-darkening. We can never completely get around it, though, unless we just go for global illumination. And still in that case, we definitely want to assume & leverage your idea that distant rays are more scattered. Aside from that, separating AO from material will always cause some kind of problem.
Such as with IP law.
I wouldn't say so, although the IOS(XNU) Kernel has plenty of FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD code, it also has lots of Mach code and Apple code as well, to the point that XNU is it's own distinct kernel.

EDIT:

I don't think there's any OpenBSD code in kernel space on IOS, just userspace.
Pretty much the same for us, the heavy lifting is done on in house servers but some of our external services are running on linode.

In either case everything is done via ansible/repeatable deploys (and some python and bash scripts).

Even our development instances are done using basically the same ansible setup as production (it catches more than I'd expect in terms of "that would have hurt in production").

For now it's a practical solution that leverages the skills I have and our projected scalability needs from year to year are low enough that I don't worry about it.
Powerful earthquake strikes near Anchorage, Alaska
I designed our wedding rings and had them 3D printed by Shapeways (they use a lost wax casting process for precious metal objects). It's pretty cool having a one-of-a-kind piece, plus knowing that if anything ever does happen to the ring, it can be easily replaced.
My grandfather was born in the 1890's in what was then called Indian Territory (aka Oklahoma). He refused to go to the doctor for his entire life. He had a heart attack at ~70 and died a week later in the hospital. No procedures, drugs, waiting rooms, or paper work. I really admire that approach.
You might wanna look into Scuttlebutt, Dat or IPFS. All help solve that initial problem you mentioned, but in different ways.
> This is a big deal. The US already lost its consumer electronics industry.

The US didn't "lose" that, it gave it away for the low wage manufacturing and thus increased profit margins. Putting the blame for this on China, like the US would act any differently if the roles were reversed, is imho quite hypocrite.

Just like the US also ain't above using its global military and intelligence dominance for some good old industrial espionage. [0]

I'm also pretty sure plenty of Chinese have figured out how to do without Apple [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Examples_of_industrial...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY
Well, yes, it's the Culture's Minds' view of Earth. But arguably that's also Banks' view. Plus of course his view of the Culture. Also, some Culture citizens quite liked the Earth. However, they came off as rather crazy ;)

There's a Mind in another novel who collects recordings of human minds, and experiments with them. Other Minds strongly disapprove. But then, the Culture overall experiments with other civilizations that it encounters.

Also, it wasn't until I read State of the Art that I realized that the Culture is not part of Earth human future. I gather than he assumes humanoid panspermia and/or convergent evolution.
Look at RDS data on FM. There was a CCC video about this a few years ago
Faith is required to sustain belief in promises that are never delivered.
> But that just circles back to Bogle's points in the article. Also, with index fund costs at rock bottoms, good luck getting quality research into your voting options.

The alternative is active funds where you're already paying for exactly the same thing plus a bunch of compensation for underperformance to people who pretend to know what they're doing. Paying a research team is cheap in comparison and once funds are at <0.10% expense ratios making them cheaper isn't that big of a market advantage anyway. A good research team and interface would definitely make me pick a 0.10% fund over a 0.05% one for a life-long investment career. If I'm reading the numbers in the article correctly at the scale of Vanguard that's a cool billion dollars a year to provide research and systems.
Hmm, sounds easier to change the spelling rather than spend a lifetime working against standard expectations.
Terry Davis Demos SimStructure – a rocket simulator (video) (2016)
I don’t know, things like the Accord/Civic and Corolla/Camry are very popular in the US. Very low TCO, and they are easy to get used (and cheap if you go 10-15 years old). SUVs require more gas and are more expensive than sedans that do what people need.
1) First, the underlying study likely is asking both 'what do you think' and 'how confident are you in your answer?" The conditions of the study are very different than the conditions of reading an article about Kahneman's work: when you read the article, you know you should have low confidence in your answers because he's a master of seeing places where our brains do screwy things.

2) He's defining 'good information' a little bit more precisely though - how do you know your information is "good?" Everyone will say they've got good information if you ask them, right?
Could you talk me through how a blockchain solution would help avoid this in a bit more detail?

I've seen lots of vague "blockchain for supply chains is a great idea" pronouncements but I don't get how it would actually work.
This comment in isolation? Maybe not. This whole conversation? It's certainly informative — from it, you can read a lot into the feelings about conservationism within this community. There's some form of value to be had from that.
So they're willing to keep Gmail which isn't cheap to host and develop free but want to shutdown Google Chat?

It feels like this is because Gmail brings in the moolah by making the user to sign in to Google.com, which means all their searches in other browser windows and tabs are tracked to that account leading to user data being collected to be targeted by advertisers.

But they don't want to monetize chat data, either because it's not very useful or because of potential backlash, thus they can shut it down to save costs.
"But it's more dangerous than using a debit card where a stolen card ties up real money during the dispute window."

That's true--my solution to this is not keeping too much money in my checking account.
The non-cynical (Ann’s therefore probably not really correct) explanation is that ratings should also capture the number of rides and these types of services are among those for whom 5 stars is expected unless they burned down your house or tried to rob you at gunpoint.
Honestly curious, where should a layman go to for nutrition advice if they can’t rely on their government?
You definitely should try Arch.

It has a similar "from scratch" policy, but all the official packages are pre-compiled. There's also the Arch User Repository, where you can find proprietary and unofficial packages, many of which will compile from source.

It also has by far the best documentation of any distro.
Even better, a chess board has 64 squares, so you can use a single 64-bit integer to store, say, the position of all white pawns, and repeat this for all the kinds of pieces. Then, you have a compact and fast data representation for your chess engine.
> rebranding of old and boring tech

A distributed merkle-chain database is still pretty innovative. A good example is git. I think what many private groups want is a "binary git for transaction data". Everybody can review their own copy of the shared chain with signing of new links in the chain.

Now that isn't really a full blockchain, but is a different kind of thing from a central RDMS.
no, all-weather tires are not the same as winter tires. Proper winter tires will make a huge difference if you have to drive in snow or ice conditions. But you won't want to use them in the summer because they will wear out rather quickly.
Not really. A few years ago there was a lot of hype around NoSQL and everybody wanted to jump on it only to find out that in many cases NoSQL didn't make anything better.
I am not Chinese. I work in chip company and vast majority of EE engineers are Chinese. White americans may be 1-2% percentage at the junior level. It may be less than 10% overall. There are some older white americans but they all will retire soon. Like I said before, nobody to blame. Follow the easy money.
Alaska Earthquake: Pipeline Shut Down, Railroad and Airport Operations Suspended
The Missing Babel IIFE Plugin
Sure. The "free travel consultant" just wouldn't work.
Lesser attempts, (this one gets around):

-June 2, 2010

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1396644

-3 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17755501

-Jan 16, 2016

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10915922
There’s a slider in the iOS app that indicates it might be possible to enable. I’ll have to try that when I have a chance.
Thanks! Didn't see any scary hornets sadly. The whole structure is totally sci-fi, even inspiring a level in Mirror's Edge.

You might also enjoy some of my other drain exploration shots from stateside:

http://www.lucashayas.com/journal/2015/3/31/minolta-af-s

http://www.lucashayas.com/journal/2014/1/19/understructure
so ... sort of like git?
Or "Pravda"
Yeah CD ROMs were fantastic technology. I had a full encyclopedia on my personal computer! And so many great games!

They filled the gap very nicely until broadband spread widely enough to allow the web to destroy any need for them.
They are referring to an internal company tool
It also requires you to install the binary extension to use the file attachments feature.
The solution offered is:
"But instead of giving full maintenance or full publishing rights to new collaborators, the original developer would give new maintainers or a CI system only signing rights. So they would sign their releases and after a careful review the original author would countersign stating that he checked and approves these changes."

This is 100% equivalent to the maintainer merging a pull request. The other half of the solution is "we need to pay open source maintainers," which doesn't need a blockchain either.

Blockchain doesn't help this scenario at all.
I'd say that Linux's popularity tend to translate to technical superiority, which then contributes to continued popularity.

Take something like Docker. Because Linux is popular, it was initially developed for Linux. And because Docker runs (best) on Linux, you get more deployments of Linux, and hence whoever makes the next big thing is more likely to develop it for Linux.

The end result is you have an OS that scales from smartphones to supercomputers, and so one needs quite a good reason to replace it.
I find Hangouts handles low bandwidth and/or high latency a lot worse than FaceTime.
>The problem with this argument is that you're assuming that there's more offer than demand, when in fact is the opposite.

I fundamentally disagree with this statement. At top tech companies, I have come across enough mediocre hires who prepared enough for a technical interview to get "in" the company, but are otherwise doing very mundane work or require a ton of direction.

In industry, I've come across with even worse hires who couldn't even program.

I don't believe there's a shortage of talent in this country.
Not indefinitely, but typicaly IRS or similar institution will require you to store all the transaction records for, say, 5 years. Which, from the purpose of hackers trying to steal your data is as good as "indefinitely".
In addition to the main chamber there are several pits that also store lots of water. Here's a photo I took on the tour that might show it better: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5265796de4b0bacb22141...

Unfortunately I don't remember the tour specifics well enough to confirm the exact use case of the system.
FYI: the "Star Wars" laser missile defense system was not entirely a failure.

There were 2 parts to SDI:

1) space-based rocket-based ABM, which worked well. You can watch the SDI video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFGNo9fbf8o

2) laser missile interception, which did not work at the time.

However, with recent improvements in fiber optic transmission efficiency, this works on ships today.

The Russians have an ABM ring around Moscow based on ABM rockets.

Both Reagan and the Russian leadership did not accept the MAD doctrine, hence the above defense programs.
Thank you everyone for the comments about this very early draft of my book. Thank you for reporting these technical bugs. It is important to fix them before the official release. I would be highly misleading for the readers to publish inaccurate information.

I am not sure how this early draft has leaked from my GitHub. Maybe I need to move it to private repo + password-protected Web site, until I finish this work. I am sorry that this unfinished early draft has reached you. I will announce the book in my blog when it is officially published and available in Amazon. It is too early now.

I plan to proof read the book to fix the obvious mechanical mistakes (like the mentioned above), to have an English language editor, technical editor and to fix all bugs reported in the GitHub issue tracker.

Thank you again for your time to report the bugs. I will definitely fix them.

-- Nakov
I always say "the moment you need to verify that a human did something outside the system, your blockchain is broken."
40% of families with children. There are plenty of households with no children, single people, etc.
What do you consider recent?

A few that come to mind:

1. Surreal Vision, Acquired by Facebook. Renato Moreno has a CS Phd from Manchester I believe
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechno...

2. Turbo.net (privately held, successful virtualization company). Founder has Berkley CS Phd.
Like the article says Google Hangouts Chat will replace Hangouts. Chat even has hangouts classic backwards compatibility.
Linux also has more drivers for older hardware. Or just hardware.

I installed FreeBSD on a ThinkPad T400 back in 2016... I was royally unimpressed with all the shit I had to go through to get drivers working on what is probably the most supported laptop of all time for the open-source community.

I would shudder to think about setting up an encrypted BSD dual-boot with Mac OS on my MBP, like I do with Arch.

And I mean this not to degrade BSD; I did love the design. Just, like, I don't want to spend all my time installing drivers from source and writing custom scripts to control my backlight and CPU fan.
Tool for fast creating Web Installer
I did that last weekend as a matter of fact. Drove about 160 miles to pick something up, was there for maybe 20 minutes, then drove home. Because I needed that thing that day. Couldn't even wait for overnight delivery.

That's a little extreme, but it's not at all uncommon for me to make the same drive with a half a day or so before I come back. But in general it's too hard to find a place to charge an electric vehicle away from home to really count on it.
You don’t trust binary blobs? But do you read through all the source you compile? If not, there is little difference.
what about google voice? will it shut down also?
CD-ROM and "multimedia" was useful in the era before internet speeds caught up with the capability of computers to show video and sound. My "Time Almanac 1990s" CD-ROM was useful, and would probably be on par with what's available online now, in quality and production values.
Also I think people are focusing too much on the problem just being IN China. I guarantee you there’s at least one Chinese national working at Intel IN THE US that’s a spy. That goes for just about any large company.
Katamine may actually /be/ an opiate:
http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/08/ketamine-an-update/
This is pretty much the least interesting use of a 3D printer I can think of.

It's about as interesting as walking into some tourist trap souvenir shop and discovering that all the key chains and coffee mugs are 3D printed.

You want me to get excited about 3D printing?

Stop making me pay $1000 for cell phones.

Stop making me buy expensive new data cables every 3 years because the plugs are different all over again.

Stop charging $90 for $2 shoes at the factory outlet down the road and just let people print them for $10.

Stop printing action figures and chess pieces.

I don't need another paper weight or bottle opener.

Help me print an entire apartment full of livable furniture wouldn't be slightly embarrassing to reveal to people.

Put a roof over my head. Give me a car to drive. Let me quit my job and just print all the status symbols I'm supposed to be chasing.
But books are not dragged down by bad gameplay mechanics, the closest equivalent to that would be printing a book on stinging nettle.

Sure, there could be a really amazing story inside that book, but who wants to go through the pain of constantly being stung to read it?

The point here not being that "narrative games are bad by nature" but rather that a lot of them sabotage themselves by using the "narrative game" excuse to keep off-putting/shallow gameplay mechanics in the game and then expect the players to "soldier through them" for the supposedly amazing narrative that's waiting along that way.
When your industrial based depends on cheap labor, like in China, it's always possible to compete by legislating wages down. You can solve your economic woes with a stroke of a pen.

But people have to live shittily.

When your industrial base depends on IP, like in the US, it's very challenging to defend secrets, especially in a free society. Competing on IP alone is very risky. You have to spend exorbitant amounts of money on security.

But at least I can live wherever I want, freely vote for who represents me, don't get sent to prison camps to make living space for the ethnic majority, have pretty clean air and water, aspire to treat the downtrodden humanely, treat people who aren't my blood relatives humanely, trust my social systems, travel freely, say whatever I want, and do something with my life other than engineering, making money or achieving subsistence survival. The investment in human capital, that makes American labor so expensive, makes it durably valuable regardless of technology, government or foreign relations.

Wait isn't that supposed to be the tradeoffs part?
Skype for Business is not Skype but a rebranded Lync.
gotta love good ol corporate espionage. at this point companies are going to have to act like military.
>My point is that it will make it easier for employees stuck in a bad spot due to employee abuse to switch jobs.

Sure. I think that's fair, but getting a work visa should be harder in the first place.

One of my previous companies got IT workers heavily through a big contracting company.

We received folks who:
1) Didn't understand their domain
2) Couldn't communicate in English, neither verbal or written

This person clearly never visited a US Consulate, or if they did, they never were asked to speak English. This is not a complaint about an individual's accent or elementary grammar. This person does not know the grammar period. And no, they were not disabled.
My uncle is a professor. This is what he said is required of him. Perhaps universities like harvard have lower standards.

In any case, consider that this system is in fact a solution to the proposed problem.
So folks will spend their money on other things. I just don't get it - how does "people have money" lead to "I know how they will spend it, and it will be on housing and food"?

In a competitive market (I can go to any grocery store I like) the prices are not set to what people have to pay but on what the other stores are selling for.

The offerings may depend on that - more caviar if folks have more spendable income. But that's called Standard of Living, and if it goes up well that's the whole purpose of UBI
They're German. Germans expect that you will take care of things on a schedule if you are told to do so. That's why German cars have a much more detailed list of required maintenance than American cars do. The Germans don't think it's unusual.
Google Hangouts Chat - which was released in Feb 2018.

https://gsuite.google.com/products/chat/
Kids are required to be in car seats until age 8 in most states.
He may not have such rights. It’s unlikely he was legally allowed to have this copy of the code; he likely just kept the copy because he felt like it.

If the copyright owner didn’t sell/transfer/contract this to him, he basically has a stolen copy.

I do wish this copy is legally transferable; I suspect it is not.
I'd add community growth, integrity (i.e. players first profits second - even at a tertiary level), and mod support, as integral pieces of many successful indie games that are often left out completely by first time developers of any type of product.
> BTW, it "feels" unlikely that a judge or jury would convict based on gait analysis.

But it does seem plausible that gait analysis could lead to a suspect, who could be convicted (or more likely, plead out) on additional evidence discovered during an investigation.
Not sure. I'm not a tax hater. I think of economics as a forcing function for better happiness not a thing in its own right.