skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The authors of this protocol made a valiant effort to defend against sybil attacks by requiring intersecting quorums. However, it's not clear to me that they succeeded. Specifically, I worry that they are depending on people running nodes to vet other nodes in some out of band fashion. Clever and patient sybil attackers could insert themselves into the network over weeks or months, and then disrupt it while shorting it on exchanges, or by conducting double spend attacks against exchanges.

As was shown in Bitshares, which relied on holders of BTS to vote on "good" block producers, users can not be relied upon to make these judgements. They will either vote at random, or vote based on trivial stats like uptime. The holders of BTS ultimately paid the price when the creators of the coin forced through a proposal to increase the supply cap and the price collapsed as a result, but the creators have since moved on to other coins.

It seems to me that proof of work works, and proof of stake (as implemented in Tezos) may work, although it's not been running successfully for very long. I'm very suspicious of other consensus algorithms protecting billions of $s worth of assets.
How on earth does this make economic sense? Normal business operates on return on capital or margins, not overall size.
Create a culture that is so fixated on wealth above all else and this is what happens. When everyone around you is judging you based on what you have and on the successes you've achieved, what motivation does one have to behave morally? God died and the dollar took its place. I know we will one day look back on this in complete confusion as to how we just watched things so clearly destructive destabilize the country. It's always hard to understand how these things happen when looking at history without being in the contemporary madness of the times.
Older versions of Internet Explorer did it (3 or 5 can’t recall) Konquerer, Netscape, and lynx too if I recall correctly.
Why is NOTHING in this city open late? Including restaurants. Who wants to eat at 6:30?!
What if there is no target altitude in the SID.
One, that's beautiful and makes me want to cry.

Two, it speaks to getting over the hump of learning something hard, where you have to work 100s of hours, feeling incompetent, before the payoff. Maybe intensives like you did are the best way to get through those gross learning curve stages.

Thanks for sharing the best thing I read on the internet this year.
> Apple decides to open up the App Store to outside app developers and lures them in by the hundreds. They ask users – want to order a pizza, find your nearest florist, or look up how to do the Soulja Boy dance? “There’s an app for that.”

We already had the web for those things ...
It's still hardly dangerous compared to driving for example.
To add to pocket, specifically for reading on kindle.
But consumers are probably getting better pricing thanks to various platforms (Google Flights, Skyscanner, Flighthub, Expedia, etc.).

An up-start airline cutting fares can become ramen-profitable much quicker than ever before.

Signed, a Canadian that salivates at the pricing the American consumers can get for domestic flights.
If in order to get equal liability we have to _really_ advocate for our interests.
JDK 9 introduced “compact strings” (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8054307). That stores a string’s characters in a byte array, with either the traditional two bytes per ‘char’ (encoding the entire string as UTF16) or, if possible, one (encoding the entire string as ISO-8859-1/Latin-1). They probably didn’t use UTF-8 because it would break the fact that string indexing is O(1).
> Funny, but we saw a debate around monolithic codebases and the monolithic image in Smalltalk.

Was there a consensus resolution?
What CS curriculum includes number theory?
The problem with asking for a fee is that Europe operates under the "transaction takes place at the buyer's location" model for such transactions, meaning you have to collect and report VAT on those fees in each country you have a paying user in. (The same goes for state sales tax in most US states).

If a site makes its money from ads, on the other hand, the location of the visitors is irrelevant when it comes to taxation. The payments from the ad network will just be ordinary business income at the place the site is located.

I don't think the charge a fee model has a chance, except for a few large sites, until some sort of intermediate service is developed that isolates the sites from having to deal with taxes in a bazillion jurisdictions. Something like a Spotify for site access, where users can pay the service a subscription fee, and the service pays sites after taking care of the appropriate taxes on the user's subscription fees so that the sites don't have to deal with it.
The problem is that the issue may cause the plane to be unflyable even by a pilot aware of the issue.

The earliest reports said that pilots could avoid this runaway trim issue by knowing to disable the electric trim. Now it sounds like doing that may also eliminate all ability for pilots to trim the aircraft.

Inability to trim make airplanes extremely difficult to fly, the control (yolk) pressures required can quickly become too high to maintain control. Pilots would have to hold something like 1 lb of continuous backpressure for every 6 knots out of trim for the entire flight.
Any site that makes it a hassle to manage this stuff, I just close the tab and never visit again. Hasn't affected my happiness one iota.
I'd disagree that the military issues are subjective, as of 0.44.x dwarves still put on a random assortment of what you assign them, normally missing something important like a right gauntlet or a shield.
Oh wow, this is going to be huge.
“We’ve just sent a verification code to the email you provided, please type the 4 digit code here:_ _ _ _”

It could even be 2 digits (the same 2 digits for everyone), you’re just looking to get their eyes on the email letting them know additional paid subscriptions are available on your website.
The randomize button in the lower right corner is the best way to see the possibilities.
Sure it does. Once you have a large monolith, the same coordination problems hit. Just ask the Linux kernel developers: https://lwn.net/Articles/769365/
Criminal charges for what exactly? They shared their user data with other companies. Since when is that criminal?
I am very happy with my monolith. I've been watching the K8s craze with amusement.

I will be splitting off pieces of my monolith soon, but docker-compose is a very reasonable compromise for running stuff, and the pieces I'm splitting off are for aggregation and background computation, so not really micro-services at all.
"feature makes it sound like you're OK with disenfranchising people"

...if you assume the least useful interpretation of the comment. Could having a real physical object to examine be useful?

The paper as a "backup" is worse than backwards, it's an excuse to implement electronic voting, and since there is "no evidence" of problems, why would you need to examine the paper anyway?
Individually negotiated confidential deals are not the same as open APIs and protocols which is where alternative clients normally come into play. And the “alternative client” stuff doesn’t even apply to Amazon, Bing etc
ATP synthesase and the bacterial flagellum are the two counterexamples both molecular in scale.
No indication of what the charges are? The closest thing in the article is:

> the partnerships seemed to violate a 2011 consent agreement between Facebook and the F.T.C

which doesn't seem like it would be criminal?

Does the US actually have criminal laws regarding selling data? Any educated guesses on what's actually going on?
At this point it is just an investigation. Nobody has been charged with anything. They have to find a law Facebook has broken first, and presumably establish enough evidence that they expect to succeed at a trial.
I have to concede that German regulators have set the pace, but the penalties are still negligible on the global or even regional scale. If every member state went in with as much conviction as Germany, we might see some results after two decades of mostly-empty promises.
> That makes a big difference—and remember, what matters here is memory bandwidth, which is not subject to Moore's Law the way that CPU speed is.

I disagree.

DDR4 bandwidths at 2666 MT/s are over 20GBps per stick, 40GBps on a standard dual-channel laptop is very common. 10 years ago, your DDR2-800 sticks would only give 6.4GBps (12.8GBps total). We now have 15.6GBps over PCIe 3.0 x16 (!!), I/O of a modern 2019 computer has the same bandwidth as DDR2 RAM of 2009.

Bandwidth has been increasing plenty. Latency is still basically the same over the last 10 years, but the field of computers has grossly more bandwidth today than ever before.

I agree that rendering is expensive, but modern computers are quite good.
Alice 4: a tablet dedicated to old SGI demos
It's kind of pedantry to bring up here, though, and distracts from the discussion.
> Are that many planes available on short notice to replace them?

If there are, they'll have to wipe the dust off of them, and send type-rated crews into territories they're not familiar with day-to-day.

That, or defer maintenance of the existing fleet.

I'm unconvinced that this is the safe resolution, but that's what will happen.

At least the US and Canada allowed planes in-flight to land, instead of making them turnaround and come back anyway via non-revenue ferry flights.
The entire platform economy is a bad idea.

Because it's one thing if a government regulates a market, but yet another if a company does it.
Data addiction. Just say no.
There can be more than one influence. I think both were.
University of Texas at Austin. Their cs department is(or at least was) heavily influenced by Dijkstra so it was extra heavy on the theory(especially math) and extra light on the software engineering. By the end I was pretty good at proofs and dog shit at development.
It still pushes the balance. Not everyone lives right by an airport and has a true destination right by an airport.

OR the planes doing the short-haul flights will now have to make these longer-haul flights, increasing the short-haul flight costs.
To understand DF, you need to understand the the reason that the ASCII art exists is because Tarn is not an artist and decided to prioritise other things. Art was not considered important enough to spend time on. Neither was a consistent UI. Neither was fixing "quality of life" bugs.

This was never an attempt to purposely build a subculture that enjoys puzzling out how to play the game. It's a choice of prioritising the other aspects of the work over these aspects. The people who avidly play DF self-selected by being able to persist through all of the sub-optimal parts to discover the wonderful parts.

Just keep that in mind if you decide to give it a go. I think to enjoy it, you need to have a relaxed attitude. I see a lot of incensed people on the forums who loudly proclaim, "How can you put up with such a crappy game?". The reputation of being the most complex game in the world, or being the hardest game to play is just wrong, unfortunately. People get the idea that there is some benefit to the complexity -- like using Blender or Vim. But there isn't. It's just complex because the work flows have never been thought through that much and there are bugs all over the place.

The reason to play the game is the emergent story telling, for which there is nothing else that even comes close. You persist through the problems, to get to the gems. Maybe some people enjoy the persistence, I don't know, but that's not the point of DF.

Anyway, I hope that puts things into perspective.
Honestly, depends on the tool.

This is my mental heuristic/the levels of tools I own/use when looking to do a job:

- Rent/Borrow: it's a common job. I need it once. (Rule of three applies here[0]. If I'm not going use it 3 times, I don't need to own it.

- Disposable Tool: Odd size wrench? No one I know has it? Time to by cheap shit from Harbor freight.

- Best Value Tool: Am I new to the tool? Or is a professional quality very expensive? i.e. Buy the Toyota, but no need for a Porsche

- Master Quality Tool: This is something I have a clear need for and owning a better quality tool will directly result in productivity games, when I buy at this level, I consider it an investment. And as long as see a noticeable return, I have no problem shelling out money for the best.

Would I rent out any of my tools? Maybe. I am very picky about the higher quality ones.

Would I rent my neighbor's cadillac of a log splitter that gets used once a year? Hell yes.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(computer_progra...
I haven't used hooks yet, but AFAIK the idea was to simplify the use of classes to functional components.

Although this article shows that hooks have greater implications than that. Also while maybe less verbose than classes, the code seems much more difficult to follow.
On iOS there is an app called "Local" developed by Facebook. I only have Facebook for the events part and I only use it through this app.

It kind of sucks that they have a monopoly on events except maybe Resident Advisor which is sometimes better than Facebook for Techno and House parties. But they are missing the invite and seeing what other people are doing that aren't in to my niche music.
Another way to look at it is, how good is your estimator of a billion dollar market, vs how good the estimator of the same is with a prior that the good/service can make at least $100M?
Indeed. The games are streamed like crazy! Lots of streams are in HD.
n-gate?
Free Google Home Mini to Select Google One Members
Usually when I saw those calls to hold bankers accountable (especially when referring to the recent recession), they are talking about the executives of the company. While Zuckerberg was an engineer, his day-to-day role now is the executive of the company. So, I think the comparison's to bank executives and tech executives are similar. However, pinning this on software engineers is an entirely different ballgame.
Artists to Spotify: cough
NPM Is Having Issues
Probably a typo, meant to be "all of the children pictured".
DDG is my default search engine, and I really want to use it for privacy reasons. However, I have developed a habit of querying with "!g" to switch the search over to Google.

This has happened because, firstly, I, too, can instantly recognise when results are garbage and so immediately type "!g". Secondly, I know when certain types of searches will be garbage - usually anything related to programming is useless using DDG. So, for work, my default search engine is just Google.

Sometimes, I just query with "!g" without even thinking about it, and at one point I realised I hadn't even been using DDG for several weeks except as a redirect.
> I simply can't sell myself to an immoral organization where, I’m afraid, any concerns of mine would be drowned out, ignored, or silenced by the incumbent powers at Facebook that are dead set on their current path.

Facebook is doing so many shady things that you would likely be able to verify that your fear would be proven correct, but many other companies do shady stuff too and you'd be none the wiser simply because they don't do enough of it to trip your alarm. The amount of stuff going on that can't stand the light of day is usually roughly proportional to company size, or, if the management is at all enlightened non-existent because they instruct their employees to not just follow the law but to do what is right. That's pretty rare though.
> Add "day tabs" so I can plan things out by the day and easily see whatever day I want. For example, my friend has a daily itinerary which is hard to read and requires scrolling.

That's why you should use the itinerary template in Google sheets instead of a blank doc.
there are still a few hundred in SF. every fall there is an open studios (www.artspan.org)...like someone else posted about the east bay, the average age is getting up there. numbers are dwindling pretty rapidly because of health and displacement issues.
> They are and there have been many rather bullshit drive-by lawsuits in regards to them too. With no leeway to give you time to fix the problem either.

Its clear these are not just "accidental" mistakes but people ignoring the problem wholesale. Commercial entities have responsibilities under the ADA. Yes it takes extra time and money to do it - so does designing in that ramp next to the stairs.

A little goes a long way here. It would be great if even just the alt text fields were filled out. Much easier than property developers have it.
http://n-gate.com/hackernews/

Enjoy!
5th of May last year in many places and in every other place in the world where you manage to convince a judge that it is. It's easier when there are explicit laws on the books.
My first thought after reading the headline was that they had been placed under some kind of litigation hold and had to immediately back up all of their data on US customers to comply.

Just baseless speculation; I dont work for Facebook or have an inside source.
He says so himself:

> We do not claim that the microservice style is novel or innovative, its roots go back at least to the design principles of Unix.
FANGs all use white box hardware with “merchant silicon” meaning they buy the chipsets directly from Broadcom, Mellanox, etc. and build their own devices. However, they do all have Broadcom and Mellanox in common and Cisco, juniper, and arista do too.
Still, the flight might be a way safer than taking a ride in a car.
I feel for Spotify and other companies on the 30% tax but I also love knowing that any purchase by my family or myself is protected, private and easily refunded if there's a mistake. There are already a lot of apps preying on kids but it would be at another level without the in-house payment system.

I think something like 30% on the first purchase and then 5-6% for any recurring purchases would make more sense. I know it changes to 15% after a year but that's still ridiculous IMO.

Maybe there's an App Association that challenges all of these stores on their rather high recurring fees.
Games like "Doom" are aiming for 60FPS / 4k resolution for example. There's a hardcore graphics / rendering community that still wants to see their systems pushed to the limit.

But I've never been part of that community. I've always played Nintendo games, pixel-art games, casual games, etc. etc. For me, gaming was NEVER about pushing the technical boundaries of computers, it was simply about having a good time... hopefully with my friends. (Some games I play: Factorio, Cuphead, Rocket League, Magicka, Touhou, Overcooked, Smash Bros, Puyo Puyo Tetris)

I dunno, the blog post is kinda weird to me. Rendering engines NEVER mattered to me personally, but I've always known people who were obsessed with those figures. As far as I can tell, those graphics-geeks still exist... and I still see games being made for them. (And I assume those people still play games like Doom Eternal to push 4k / 60FPS).

Heck, NVidia's big "RTX" event is still being picked up positively by some groups for more realistic shadows or whatnot. Someone out there cares about improving graphics these days.

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It really depends on the specific game community. Assassins Creed games are about historical fiction. The story is pure fiction, but it attracts a band of history buffs who ABSOLUTELY get pissed at minor historical inaccuracies.

In the case of Assassin's Creed, the art must be well-researched and historically accurate. This leads to challenges: such as proper-rendering of Stained Glass windows in various churches. Rendering matters for sure, but modeling these historical objects is also important.
I believe Home Depot and Lowe's and small non profit "tool banks" already do this, an app displaying inventory and manuals would maybe be helpful
Neat! Good work!
Which might be negative.
If that's so, it's as if an unknown and possibly arbitrary amount of money was taken from your wallet every time you picked something up from a store. Yes, it's nice that I can walk into Whole Foods and just pick up a few oranges and leave, but if I get home and it turns put they cost $25 each, is it worth it? The data market is not mature and transparent enough for the transactions it's capable of making.
Did you read the article?

Here is the excerpt:

> Privacy advocates said the partnerships seemed to violate a 2011 consent agreement between Facebook and the F.T.C., stemming from allegations that the company had shared data in ways that deceived consumers. The deals also appeared to contradict statements by Mark Zuckerberg and other executives that Facebook had clamped down several years ago on sharing the data of users’ friends with outside developers.
I'm only an "interested layperson" in the subject so I don't know details.

But I know that for instance there are plenty of alarms warning the pilots about the proximity to terrain.

Besides, there were excellent visibility conditions at the time of the accident so, even if the autopilot were able to drive the plane into ground, the pilots would have realized that not only by seeing the other instruments but looking through the window as well.

The available radar data also shows there's been a struggle to keep the airplane flying. An autopilot-controlled flight into terrain wouldn't show such pattern.
ytt: The YAML Templating Tool that simplifies complex configuration management
Like how modern safety features add the negative effect of making cars heavier?
Nice, thanks for pointing that out! It seems like a small think but typing !s only is more convenient.
My fiance's uncle sent something today that because of a school shooting in Brazil, they were blocking all images and video shared to social networks like "WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and other social networks". I haven't been able to verify this myself or from any other sources, but I wonder if either people are misinterpreting the FB outage or if Brazil is blocking content it's having weird ripple effects.
> I think you can guess what caused the first two.

You do realize they redesigned the plane after 9/11 to prevent that from happening again, right?
I was consumed by df for about six months to the detriment of everything else.

I’ve never been able to go back, but I always remember it as the best gaming I ever did.

Df is a piece of art comparable to anything created by mankind to date. In a 1000 years I believe df will be compared with Mozart and the Mona Lisa.

And hopefully they’ve improved the efficiency... I want my descendants to be able to build that 1000 dwarf fortress!
The last one is the one that was a "new version" last year. Now it's past 10% adoption. So yes, you pretty much explained that it matters.

https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards

Actually 8.x is at 21% and 7.x at 28%. That's half the people on the last 2 versions. Older ones will soon get replaced as those phones start dying.
Hmmmmm, what makes you say "domain-driven design, event storming, serverless, and event driven architectures" is less "ivory tower"?

"ivory tower" to me means academic, theoretical, "interesting", "pure", vs on the other end of pragmatic, practical, get-it-done, whatever-works, maybe messy. (either end of the spectrum has plusses and minuses).

"DDD, event storming, event driven architectures" don't sound... not "ivory tower" to me. :) Then again, I am a U.S. developer!
There is an interesting equivalence between pure functional programming flow based programming and the actor model.

There is a lot of fancy theory to underpin this equivalence, the essence is that all of them revolve around (side effect free) transformation.
> God died and the dollar took its place

'God died' is such bull. The worst people in the world do what they do in his name.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
I believe there's an exception for physical goods, so Amazon is ok but not Kindle, audible etc.
I've requested a license and received one within minutes. There's nothing more honorable than keeping your word! Awesome and thanks!