skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that seems a possible attack. You can store stuff and pass the regular audits using "Proof-Of-Storage", yet refuse to upload bits when finally asked.

Hard to protect systems from irrational attacks like that (we know from building a similar system). They are quite transparant about their "unsolved-problems": https://github.com/filecoin-project/specs/issues/63
That is cool actually, it's nice to see he intends to do as he promised. People voted for him because of this. I thought he might give up. (Not American.)
JunitQuest – Automatically generate (useless?) unit tests for Java
Nope, didn't mean to imply there was! GitLab certainly seems to have replicated a lot of the good ideas from GitHub, I just wanted to point out that it now seems to be going the other direction as well.
The lower court dismissed the case following a preliminary motion before trial... How is that not considered a summary judgement?

Edit: a dismissal is even less precedential than a summary judgement, as summary judgements come after discovery, unlike dismissals.
nothing, they're describing a series of content addressable blocks that link back to their ancestors. Which is a good application of a block chain. Think IPFS.

It's not cryptocurrency. Though cryptocurrency definitely popularized the technique.
My advertising professor told us the opposite, he straight up told his students that the best sales tactics is to evoke emotional responses like fear and mental anguish and to leverage that to your benefit, including with with lies of omission and unsubstantiated claims about what you are selling.

Sure you don't HAVE to do those things, but then you won't make nearly as much money doing only slightly less soul crushing advertising work. Just like being a good politician doesn't usually get you nearly as far as being a bad and corrupt politician willing to lie straight to people's faces.
I'll choose that 0 over giving away 3 billion every day. I don't care how you try to justify this sort of corruption.
It's like watching a 3-card Monty hustler yelling across the street at the 3 cup and ball guy for being a scam.
Microsoft used to have PC specification guides.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_System_Design_Guide
Part of the reason it may be worth it to leave yourself some slack. As the saying goes, "the better you get, the better you'd better get".
A rainbow table for 8 chars would be 50-100 TB. If you add a 8-byte salt to each password multiply that number with 256^8
Who do you use instead? I'm really disappointed by their IPv6 support and undocumented egress firewall rules, but found other providers to have their own set of problems. Would love suggestions.
API enables cross-origin requests to anywhere
Their implementation is copyrighted. What prevents royalty-free clones is patents. MIPS was similar with certain key patents preventing clones until their recent pivot. You can clone legacy ARM architectures that aren't patent encumbered.
> It sounds like you're not that into it

Assuming you are right, do you think if I was actually into programming I wouldn't feel too tired for more programming after work?

I'm asking because not having the energy for more programming after doing it for the whole day seems pretty normal to me and not really indicative of being into programming or not but... am I wrong?
The biggest problem isn't even lack of time or talent. the biggest problem is lack of opportunity. we're not in 2007 anymore. Just look at ProductHunt, where 100s or 1000s of top-notch applications and software are released every week. How many of those do you think produce any kind of financial success? It's a very small number of them indeed.

How many times have you thought of a great idea to solve a problem only to discover it's already been done a bazillion times? There are still many unsolved problems, but those are the ones that can't be solved, either due to regulation, barriers to entry or cost of distribution.
+1

Follow up reading:
Peter Thiel’s “Zero to One”

https://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/080...
25,000 x $150,000 = $3.75 Billion dollars of new taxable income, regardless of how it is distributed.
If that's the case then the downvoters dreadfully misread my post. That's not what I was saying at all. I was pointing out that bad ideas can be held by people regardless of their raw intelligence.
It's not irrational.

What's irrational is not following up by banning every single deal of this type. Every single one.
Are medical outbreaks something that's typically considered part of infrastructure? At least in GA that's something the CDC would manage.

I considered infrastructure to be roads, sewers, water mains, electrical, etc... not necessarily a medical outbreak.
Most New Yorkers don't live in LIC and won't be directly impacted. If you asked me about a proposal in a borough I never go to I'd probably say "yeah sure no problem"!
> you essentially get an API to validate my account balance which you didn’t have before

A blockchain is not needed for this
You don't have a choice about Facebook. They are collecting data about you right now and affecting the society you live in. At least the government is accountable through elections.
How many jobs are in LIC though? This would've been a massive boon to the LIC and the NYC job market without the added congestion that putting these jobs in Manhattan would've caused. Manhattan is already at/over capacity, but I don't think the Manhattan -> LIC rush hour subway is.
A competitor flagged my Instagram account and got it deleted. What do I do?
Hi HN crowd,

Looking for the wisdom of the crowd here. I have a business Instagram account I've been working on for many years with many followers which has come under fire over the past few weeks from an angry competitor. He continually would flag my images and get them taken down; even after responding to Instagram [0] with a completely reasonable and valid response, I got an email this morning [1] saying that my account has been deleted for infringing on someone's copyright. Not sure if this process is completely automated and blind but I'm certain any normal-minded person would have ruled in my favor.

What can I do?

[0] https://imgur.com/a/iug1B3c
[1] https://imgur.com/a/feRkgnb
Fair enough, but Google has made their mission about making the world's information accessible, moreso than being the best search engine; I assume you still use YouTube, perhaps you use Google Maps (although there are plenty of good navigation alternatives), perhaps you use Google Translate, etc.
I’ve thought about doing this sort of thing, but co-opt a friend/colleague/someone your husband knows as the SME in the different industry.

You need the insight in to that industry — by definition, you don’t have it. So find that person, and don’t just take their idea and leave. Work with them. Have them be the champion in the industry for this thing you make. Who knows best where the thing can be sold? They do!
> To really achieve maximum results, we had to push our people hard so they were constantly out of their comfort zone

Ew.
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No, I haven't pushed any of my code yet. First steps have just been getting automata working (which I'm struggling with because I wanted to do this in python) and generating solved sudoku (finished that).

The second step is to build an array for all the 'cells' in a sudoku board. Really, all the information for every 'cell' is 3 matrices of 8 other cells (row cells, column cells, major cells). Then, another `TODO`, enumerating all of the 'conditionals' for the automata? If you want to DM me, I'd love to pick your brain on this. How to define the conditionals for the rules, etc.

Then the plan was to just push DL compute at it: generate a set of conditionals; sets of random sudoku boards; allow the algorithm to run GoL-Sudoku flavor; score them based on their performance; feed this back as the response in the DL model; rinse; wash hands; compute.
Is it a core advantage? Maybe. But smaller code size has beneficial effects on the silicon cost. Choice 1: If you can benchmark the same on important work loads with 10% smaller I-Cache, make the die smaller. Manufacturing costs go down with a greater than square law effect with die area. Choice 2: Use the die area freed up to put more functional units in the same area.

Core advantage? I will let others debate that. Significant: surely.
Maybe we need a bandwidth coin as well ...
That's a bit better but only tends to apply within limited domains. I've met a chemistry Ph.D that would be quite knowledgeable and likely correct when it comes to inorganic chemistry but who believes that the Earth is 6000 years old and that the Noah's Ark story is absolutely literal.

Human beings can and often are extremely competent in some domains while simultaneously being highly irrational, misinformed, or just ignorant in others. Then you have to consider ideology and social conformity which can both bias people toward holding beliefs that don't make sense regardless of intelligence.

My overall point is that intelligence is only weakly related to logical validity or overall correctness. What and how you think matter quite a bit and those things are learned.
I would definitely not want the government to be able to control what ideas/speech is allowed on these platforms and what isn't. Nor do I want a single entity (as Facebook/Twitter exist today) to have that control. What we need is more effective anti-trust legislation and enforcement, so that a number of platforms can coexist and compete even though there is a strong network effect to having a single platform.

I would also support laws requiring that these social media platforms a) protect consumers' data b) don't censor beyond what the law requires minimally. But it might be easier to go the competition route.
> And would the employees of these businesses earn on average equal to or greater than the average NYC Amazon employee?

Does it matter? If they earn enough to live and spend locally then isn't that good enough?

Some Amazon employee giving a developer an extra 1000 bucks a month for a luxury apartment and getting their food delivered instead of going to the store isn't exactly an amazing economic benefit.
Why you should passively invest your savings
That recent period in time when it was a license to print money?
Can you explain? To me, it seems like control is what matters. And the DTCC controls access to its databases, whereas JPM controls access to its blockchain. Whether the parent organization is adding a +1 to a database or a +1 to cryptographic ledger seems inconsequential.
That's not how I read it.
Yeah but most people won't trigger that. Seems like most of the complaints here about triggering it often are from people who are blocking js/cookies/randomizing user strings. The NoCaptcha check box itself is better than the old system where everyone had to do the Captcha at least.
On one hand, this is progress. I'd rather they (both sides) nothold the entire government hostage for this one issue.

On the other hand, this is kind of scary. I don't like the President accumulating more and more power at the expense of Congress (though Congress has earned it, by becoming progressively more worthless for the past 2 or 3 decades). I therefore don't like the President governing by executive orders; I like even less him governing by declaring emergencies.
Was about to chime in the same... dokku is great for the hobbiest/cheapish tiers... I wouldn't go below a $10/mo instance, but you can throw a surprising amount of work at it at the lower end.
It's because then politicians can run on "I BROUGHT AMAZON HERE! JOBS! GREAT JOBS!".
The thing is that it can take days for a transaction between two different regional banks to clear. Whereas with the solution they're proposing, I'm guessing it'd take much less time than that.

Many people are trying to solve this problem (see: Corda, XRP)
That's grey area.

Intel has publicly asserted that their patents apply to emulation, but is hasn't hit the courts AFAIK.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/intel...
How is the WAL stored? If there is a problem with the storage, networking, or DC, you will not be able to get the WAL in order to bring up the DB in a new region. Also, the process of replaying WAL since last backup can take a very long time for a high traffic DB, during which time it is going to be completely unavailable.
that sounds like the exact opposite of a zero-knowledge proof: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof
Price is really the sticking point as far as I can tell. They're pricing a little over 2x what most people spend on trucks and I wouldn't at all be surprised if that price went up another 50% before it's actually for sale.

It's going to be limited audience at first, unless batteries come down in price significantly. So I can understand all the design decisions to appeal to a high end market but ... idk.

I definitely agree with you about the touch interfaces. The Model 3 needs more buttons.
ElephantSQL is apparently very good: https://www.elephantsql.com/plans.html
The part where it's mostly overpaid software devs living in a bubble.

I live in that part of Seattle. It's the same part where people want to ban all cars because they never have to go anywhere that isn't walking distance, and their dog loves walking.
Well, seeing that the government has the largest army in the world and the power to take away property via taxes and imminent domain, I worry much more about the government than Facebook.
The problem is that she is talking about time. The problem is not time but lack o energy. Of course if you just manage people then you might have energy.
Plausible Deniability
I didn't understand this too. It read as if they reached a settlement with Blackbird and part of that settlement involved taking down Project Jengo. From the site:

"The larger bounty (up to $30,000) will be spread among those submitting substantial prior art which reads on any of the 34 other outstanding Blackbird patents or their 3 in-flight patent applications and could lead to the invalidation of these dubious patents"

Any reason why they're wrapping this up if this hasn't yet been achieved? (those patents are still active)
CI only seems to make sense to me when talking about a single branch ("master", "trunk") into which all changes are frequently merged. FWIW, also Wikipedia describes it as "merging all developer working copies to a shared mainline", the latter being a branch, not repo.

Otherwise, you still might test indvidual feature branches on top of master, but that wouldn't prevent any conflicts between several of the pending branches. One could think of a system that continuously tests all possible combinations of all pending feature branches to spot any conflicts before actually integrating them. Not sure whether such thing exists, though, or whether it'd be very practical.
> leads to wonders like this

The engineer in me that learned about computers on a 286 with 4MB of RAM and a Hercules graphics card screams in shock and horror at the thought of letting a Cray-2's worth of computing power burn in the background. The hacker in me thinks the engineer in me should shut up and realize that live-editing shader programs is fun[1] and a great way to play with interesting math[2].

[1] http://glslsandbox.com/e#41482.0

[2] http://glslsandbox.com/e#52411.1
> I would like to work on a side project that eventually would lead to some revenues this summer. My question is, how did you find problem(s) to solve ?

Maybe you should work on a project that has no chance to produce revenue but is fun or interesting. Then when the idea comes for something that is profitable, run with it.

You could try to sit down and come up with an idea but I bet most of them will feel forced. You could spark a blunt and come up with tons ideas only to find out later that the dots don't connect.

I think most, if not all, ideas are derivatives of experiences. So just build something and once the right thing comes along I think you'll notice.
OpenAI unveils multitalented AI that writes, translates, and slanders
Depends on if the Democrats can find someone less horrible than Hillary to run against him. He's not (I trust) going to win by declaring an emergency and using that to rig or abolish the election. He might win by declaring the emergency in order to do what he wants to with the border, if enough people agree with what he does with the border.
It's the other way around, actually. Having small set of authorities that reach consensus via raft/pbft in case of quorum means that ethereum blockchain can be much faster. You still have full transparency of what's happening, you have access to the chain, you can read it, validate it, etc. They just run minting of blocks for you. It's true that if they don't like you, they can refuse to include transactions from you for example - that's the main cons from public consensus like PoW. But they are not worried about it, of course and other participants are usually not worried as well because they know that whoever controls minting nodes have strong incentives to run it fair (otherwise participants would not give a shit to join it). This is different from public chains where those rules don't exist. In big corps integration and security is a massive problem. Blockchain reduces those two problems by orders of magnitude. If you wanted to "implement it by any random database system" - you'd end up with something like ethereum. You can't just spawn your public postgres and publish public api to create new users, can you? Quorum has also some other extensions to ethereum related to privacy (private contracts, anonymity etc) that are attractive to corporations. It's nice to see them open sourcing quorum and publishing something real-world based on it.
Expansion of executive power has been going on for decades now. The Democrats had plenty of opportunities to roll this back under Obama, after seeing what sort of powers Bush had used it for. Instead, they decided to allow executive order to become even more powerful without considering what may happen next.
As mentioned in another thread, may want to consider dokku with the postgres plugin.
There's a certain point where I ask: Would an FSF enthusiast be interested in dating someone who signed up via a proprietary app, or would they be looking to date other free software enthusiasts who were also looking for people without using a proprietary app?

It can be really challenging to deal with a significant other without using the same apps they do, if they have chat apps they use, social networks they're on, or money transfer apps they like, you can regularly run into a "well, my phone can't use that app" situation.
> Everyone now knows that foreign governments, most notably Russia, have been using social media aggressively to promote their interests.

And if anyone is going to be using social media to manipulate public opinion in the US, it should be the US government, goddamnit!
I had a dyslexic moment and read this as

> "Mormon" is being phased out in favor of "LSD".

Which is also very true at societal level.
Did you get fees/Do you expect to get fees?

Are any attorney fees you might win actually comparable to the real cost to cloudflare?
A lot lower price for your compute nodes to start with, less constrictive administration environment.
This is why I, as a coder, am spending my spare time learning about marketing, not making things. The value is in the audience. I'd even consider paying someone else to make the damn thing!
I agree in theory, however our anti-trust laws are not strong enough to allow competition.

Facebook, etc., can easily purchase any social network that gains significant traction, and has done so multiple times in the past.

How do you solve for that?
EMail is damn close since if Google blocks or marks your server as spam, its pretty over for you.
Of course it's feasible. There are already plenty of ways to migrate Twitter/FB data to Mastodon/Diaspora. To do a full migration, we would need an antitrust ruling with an order to perform the migration. It isn't likely but it is feasible.

Solving the monopoly problem indirectly solves (or at least reduces the severity of) other problems. When one big bad actor gets reduced to twelve small actors, when one of those actors acts badly it's a smaller problem.
I believe there is a good economic model for open hardware design but it's not the software model. "commoditize your complement" means that only those whit physical hardware can make money.

IMHO Syndicate with clever licensing around RISC-V infrastructure would be the best idea.

The clever licensing part:

1) mandatory licensing: licensees must license to everyone with the same conditions. licensees can't refuse to license.

2) pricing model: licensees periodically announce valuations at which they commit to sell their IP, and must sell their intellectual property for that value to anyone who is willing to commit to smaller license fees. There can be a periodic auction each year.
Good point, if you're talking technical proficiency rather than pure artistry you may be right.
Are you still hiring for the Developer Advocate position? I checked the website and it wasn't listed under careers.
You might want to consider applying for Pioneer—you can get a grant for your project: https://pioneer.app/
The US (I assume you're talking about the US) intragenerational mobility is actually quite strong, meaning people have the ability to impact their own economic outcomes if they choose, or in other words, the American dream (TM). Decreased intergenerational mobility in the US is actually a function of decreased fraction of families earning below 100k, meaning, less people by fraction in the lower and middle class as they've pushed up into the upper >100k tier.
It's more like asking for a discount cause you want 20 cars.

Guaranteed sale is nice, but if I think I can clear out those cars pretty easily without a discount I'm gonna be a lot less inclined to do it.
Is he going to use eminent domain to acquire several hundred miles of bordering properties? [1]

[1] - https://www.revealnews.org/article/this-land-is-our-land-man...
Regulate content, no. Break up de-facto monopolies, yes. Facebook should be forced to sell off Snapchat, Instagram, and WhatsApp, for starters.
There was an old science fiction novel set in a world like that. I've forgotten the name, but they called the robot-written stuff "wordwooze". (It doesn't work as a search term because some publisher is using it now.)

Added: it was The Silver Eggheads by Fritz Leiber. An odd, forgettable book itself.
Congressperson: We need to regulate social media because unregulated social media has these dangers, etc.

The Public: I'm on board with that!

Congressperson then introduces a bill that imposes regulations that benefit Congressperson's generous donors, while resulting in an even bigger shitshow than before for the public.

The Public: WTF, man?!

Congressperson (if Republican): That's what happens when you let "big government" and stifling regulation go unchecked! Who's up for repealing the Clean Air Act?
Sounds cool, I'll check it out.
HTTP wasn’t needed for you to send that comment to hacker news, they could have used other technologies instead. What’s your point?
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Projects evolve. It's pretty hard to just come up with a world changing idea and it just works.

Typically you start with something small (or even silly), then it may evolve into something else (potentially big). Prepare to work on it for many months (oftentimes many years) without seeing any traction.
They don't get that automatically? If so, that's really shitty if you get sued.
>If someone tries to cheat (or spam or whatever), you kick them out.

Or, if someone doesn't pay for access, you kick them out? Or if someone is your competitor, you kick them out?
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