skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The subtitle is misleading:

> Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked

This might be fine if the article didn't talk at such length about majority hash rate attacks. It implies that this kind of attack is something new, which it most certainly is not.

You can think of a soft fork (one path to upgrading the network) as a coordinated majority hash rate attack. A cartel decides that they will censor blocks that don't conform to a restricted version of the protocol. Whether you call it an attack depends maybe on intent, but the mechanism is identical.

The Bitcoin white paper explains very clearly the main security assumption: an attacker does not control a majority of the hash power. It's been part of the security model from the beginning.

Most of the other attacks have been launched against Ethereum. Its scripting system is quite a bit more complex than Bitcion's, so its attack surface is larger.
> The latter is still a deeply held belief

and I need to kill the <undesirable group> isn't sincerely held?

I think you have to believe pretty sincerely to be radicalized to the point of committing murder.

> Regardless of how we feel about it, everyone has the right to feel love or hate or superiority.

Why? I was perfectly happy living in a society where that was not the case. Where freedom of expression is guaranteed, rather than absolute freedom of speech. It's not flawless, but it's better than nazis murdering people all the damn time.
I... do they know about -A? Someone should tell them.
I don't see what the fuss is about. This is an effective mitigation, given that software can't just arbitrarily lie about its user agent.
It sounds like you just don't understand how security clearances work.

Its about allegiance to a country. Not your race.

If you come to the US from China, revoke your Chinese citizenship, become a US citizen and limit your contact to Chinese citizens, you can get a security clearance.

Also a security clearance is not a right.
They were so close to nailing "...tuck in your baby" but they had to add a phone booth. LOL
I mean no offense, but how is this really solving any problems? How is inventing a new voice many people are uncomfortable with really making the world a better place? A user configurable male/female voice could just work.
> I've found it interesting that the supposed "bad guys"

Friend, if you aren't willing to condemn the white supremacists as the bad guys I seriously question your decision making.

There is zero value in maintaining this veneer of both sides being in any way the same.
I think the appropriate market response is to start pricing this behavior into our salary asks as younger engineers.

Rather than assuming a long career with increasing pay, point to cases like this in salary negotiations. Your highest income generating years maybe be 30-40.
Comparing apples and oranges: a randomised prospective study (2000)
But they’re seeking to have it be sold... not shutdown. So why would that be part of the WH agenda?
Google's case is less one of "using" Java, and more one of reimplementing it. It's an entirely different legal beast.
Hey, your list is great and has solid BS-free explanations.

One thing I learned from it, is that how insightful a question is essentially how well it circumvents bias. You can ask something typical and get canned responses, but posing an inquiry designed to elude defense mechanisms, and penetrate an semiconscious, semi-intentional haze will probably (and inadvertently) yield the most revealing answers.
You should watch this video about how bad the voting procedures actually are: https://youtu.be/lzigiPUXNzI
Adam? LN is vaporware at best, its been 18 months away for 3 years.

Bitcoin Cash is the closest thing to Bitcoin at this point.
One can espouse such opinions freely and openly but alas disagreeing in any sort of way would often be unwise from a career and public profile perspective.
Thank you for the kind correction.
Am I the only person who thinks that the text above is some elaborate kind of trolling?
Ask HN: Why are subreddits so toxic?
Has reddit always been so toxic? Should subreddit moderators have stricter codes of conduct, especially those that are more "industry/tech/profession" oriented? I'm from the "tech" industry, and I was surprised to see that tech subreddits are also fairly _arbitrarily_ toxic instead of the negging-but-constructive type comments that pass on HN.

Or is that entire idea just against reddit? HN is a more moderator based forum, for example.

What are your thoughts on community censorship? When do things cross a line? Or should it just be a subreddit owner/moderator based thing and let everyone just figure it out...
If the side project is for passive income, then Dart and flutter is the way to go. Single code base and mutli platform. Soon industry will also catch up with this logic.
Eh? Software can do exactly that.
Of course, anything could be adjusted for recency if you adjust the scope. However, if you read new research everyday, that's far from recent.

As for the probable 2 years period, it doesn't look like it is the case in the paper; "Seventy one full-time employees participated [...] Participants completed a one-shot general electronic questionnaire"
Those youngsters will age too and be over 40 someday.
wow, thank you. that's amazing!
When you put WASM into something that isn't a browser then it still won't be a browser afterwards. WASM is not DOM+CSS.

On top of that, JS devs would be the ones who get the short end of the stick, because js is the one language that does not compile to WASM because where WASM comes from, you already have a JS environment, no need to build a second one inside WASM.
Pretty sure that was sarcasm haha
Office Space made me hate cubicles. Open-plan made me appreciate cubicles.
They should ban ALL kind of hate speech not just white ones.
Source says they also did some input sanitizing along with blocking curl, and they had to make a new PoC to get around that. If I'm reading that right then this isn't really an issue, nothing wrong with defense in depth.

Edit:

>The update adds several filters to handle
single quotes in user input. However, these filters can be evaded by
specially crafted inputs. By providing the following string for the
certificate's common name, a "ping" command can be injected:

Title is misleading, implying the only patch was blacklisting curl.
I'm reminded of my dad, bought some surplus home security cams. They were surplus because they were discontinued on account of the firmware being shitty + spyware. Basic shlocked together embedded linux crap.

Found someone that had developed fixed firmware. Re-flashed them with that. Figured out how to get them to send a notification to his phone when the motion sensor goes off so he knows when the deer are eating his wife's plants.

My dad is 83.
I'd always heard that mixed race children are a bit taller (and smarter?) on average than their parents. I wonder if it's true?
Well, they aren't guaranteed to get old...
Of all the security post-mortems I’ve ever wanted to read, it’s sad I’ll probably never get to read this one and its tale of how a team of well-paid comfortable engineers got together and decided this patch was a good idea.
Go to sleep when you can, wake up early and lift weights is dangerous advice for people with bipolar? It almost seems like you responded to a different comment (pull an all-nighter to reset your cycle).
Agree, you will get downvoted here though, HN hates Bitcoin and now that Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin, they really hate it.
How? Do you think developers would be so crazy as to add some sort of "--user-agent" option to software like curl that would cause arbitrary strings to be presented as the user agent? Why would somebody write software to do this, just go on the internet and tell lies?
Knowing someone is gay is a classic blackmail situation, particularly within the gov world. Grindr is very sexually charged, so you get the most extreme sensitive bits here, combined with high profile people that are closeted and don’t want this information leaked. Not the same situation.
I guess the biggest problem is that the mitigation isn't future-proof. Someday, there might be other command-line tools besides cURL that can be used for this kind of attack.

A better fix would be to just drop all incoming IPv4 packets that have the "evil" bit set. (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt) Extending this protection to IPv6 is left as an exercise for the reader.
I must have missed the part where Google and Facebook are obligated to ensure people can find your site via their services...

All of this seems to be something along the lines of "it's inconvenient, so it's bad, and [they] shouldn't be allowed to make it inconvenient on _their_ platform".
Sure, but they are prescient in a completely obvious way. The bit I'm questioning is the 'level of foresight'. 'Faxing from the beach' required exactly zero foresight.
They don't want to sell... they're only forced to sell by the US government.
My library blocks VPNs too, but I just set my PIA VPN to use TCP over port 443 and it works fine. You just need your VPN to look like HTTPS.
I'm usually down voted a lot on threads like these because I usually say that ageism is overblown (I'm 45). But when you have smoking guns like:

One in-house presentation showed that this posture meant doubling the proportion of workers receiving negative performance evaluations, so 3,000 employees could be laid off and replaced with “early professionals,” according to the suit...

IBM made presentations to its senior executives calling for IBM to evaluate its long-term employees more harshly, to use those negative evaluations to justify selecting long-term employees for lay-off, and to replace these employees with ‘EPs’— IBM management short-hand for ‘early professionals.'”

It's pretty obvious.
> The latter is still a deeply held belief.

And Salafi Jihadism isn't? I have some Saudis and Pakistanis I should introduce you to...
I agree, it's just good sense. It's even encapsulated in the bit of folk wisdom about throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
It's generally very difficult to get younger STEM people on board with this. They often believe themselves to be different or just straight up better than their predecessors. For them, it doesn't matter because they're clearing not going to be ousted, or are so short sighted that they believe it won't matter if/when it happens to them.
Have you ever had your phone gain access to a "5G" network with a simple software update? Or had that same update not actually increase the speed of your network traffic? You will. And the company that'll bring it to you? AT&T.
Wait a minute, cheap medicine through the dark web?!

Won't that be a killer app for the desperate?
These kinds of future looking ideas are always terribly wrong in the small details, so its important to look at what the general prediction was. The thinkers behind these things had to settle a vague predictive idea like "video phones" on some kind of physical representation in order to ground it enough to make the advertisement, but didn't know enough about the small bits the future would hold to make it exactly what's come to pass.

So you can sort of score how good future predictions are based on these broad ideas even if the particulars didn't work out. "People will generally start to commute on personal flying vehicles" is one that hasn't really come to pass in any form, so the it's a bad prediction. But these ones are really stellar.

I think even more importantly, these ones were so provocative and the grounding in the particulars was so plausible that an entire generation of engineers grew up remembering these video and trying to make the prediction self-fulfilling. Thus these videos were both drivers of innovation as well as prophecy. There's an overly academic book on this topic with a great title that I think captures this well: "The Dreams our Stuff is Made of"

The biggest prediction here that underlies all of these predictions is that there is going to be a global communications capability that enables most of the things in the ads -- and it was going to be so ubiquitous, commoditized and possess so much bandwidth and low latency that anybody could use it anywhere. In 1993, this wasn't a forgone conclusion -- Windows 95 didn't even ship with a built-in TCP/IP stack.

The obvious thing they missed was miniaturization and device convergence. Most of the activities here involve people still going to fixed or installed devices -- the smartphone was never considered.
> Americans born between 1980 and 1984 are just as likely to own cars compared to, say, their parents’ cohort.

This demographic is age 35-39. What about younger millennials?
A mall is just one subset of the shops in a town. It's somewhat secluded from the open streets. That's a far cry from trying to reserve an entire viral/exponential mechanism for your own political side. That's more akin to only one political party getting to use Television and Radio, then claiming things are "fair" and Free Speech is upheld because the other side can still distribute leaflets. This is exactly what SV oligarch class is seeking to do. They are seeking to reserve all the power of virality and discovery by search in synergy with monetization -- all for their own political side.

That's like telling the part of the population you don't like they don't need cars and mass transit, they can still just walk. They want to rig the media landscape, such that their side has 1000 times the online voice as the other, then declare they've "won" because they can't hear the others. All the while, huge numbers of people find their comments and reviews are erased, while the content creators they want to hear from are de-platformed, kicked off sites, and demonetized.

No, that's not winning in the marketplace of ideas. That's just forcing people with economic power. It's as disingenuous as anything ever propagandized in history.
This tax rate is for general work when self employed. It's not specific to gambling.
Beware that Indian companies can hand over your data to Indian agencies anytime without any court order[0].

[0]:https://m.slashdot.org/story/350062
I think a lot of companies don't realize the damage they do to themselves. I can understand the appeal to startup managers; to be blunt and a bit uncharitable, hire youngins' and you get cheaper people whom you can push around more and train up in your own particular pathologies, instead of dealing with imported ones.

But if the firm survives the startup phase, you really want anchors, both in technical and cultural dimensions. A certain type of tech-manager feels threatened by that, I think, so they jettison anyone who might be too independent.

Not to mention, experience matters. There are a few folks on my team who are the go-to folks, not because of their title, but because they tend to know the correct answer/are able to diagnose and fix your weird issue. Those people, without exception, are neither young nor managers.

"Sonny, that reminds me of the time I canceled a 3 month reporting project with two hour's worth of awk..."
If you concern that, I would leave the Australia if I were you. Being under the jurisdiction of Australia is already a huge threat.
Giving, not taking.
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-newzealand-shootout-austr...
> but a totally different thing to base your attitude towards women on the perceived gender of a virtual assistant on your phone.

Well, if you say "base", then yeah that's very unlikely. However, their attitude doesn't need to be based on that, it could simply be supported by it, even a little bit.

If all your life you've seen women in a "serving" sort of role, like seeing only female nurses serving your medicine, female waitresses serving your food, female caretakers serving your kids and elders, female maids serving your house needs, and even your female-sounding phone serving your electronic needs, then in aggregate and in time that sets an idea, even a subconscious one, that contributes to your understanding of how the world works.

I don't see this genderless voice as being the solution to a problem. I see it as them just trying to do their small part in a change they want to see.
It is naive to think that principles and virtues need apply when it comes to national security. There are horrible but difficult things being done right now in every country's intelligence communities to protect the citizens of those countries. Racism has nothing to do with it.
I don't buy it.

AoPS is a great organization, but the focus is on pure, theoretical mathematics.

Understanding calculus is key to understanding many beautiful areas of applied mathematics: image processing, signal processing, control systems, electronics, etc. I consider them more elegant than theoretical mathematics.

Now, for that, you don't need all the messy manipulation (integration-by-parts and similar), but you do need the basics of area-under-the-curve, of derivative-as-slope, and similar, as well as some of the theory.

But that's not too hard to learn.

My own opinion is that the basics of calculus should be taught alongside the basics of algebra in elementary school. Plenty of people have had success doing both.
“Imagine six, or 10 billion people doing nothing but arts and sciences, culture and exploring and learning. What a world that would be.”

This kind of reminds me of the people I've met that want to start a company, but don't seem to realize that 99% of it is going to involve tasks that are not fun or enjoyable.

For a successful society, we need people doing work that nobody else wants to do, so we have can have successful artists and people that want to explore.
Good luck to you then. I'm also really not happy about the hardware that's why I went for the Air, maybe I should have gone for a used 2016 model instead. It's now the 3rd generation of that keyboard and they still couldn't get it right. I want my hardware to last if I have to pay it myself and I wonder how I deal with it when warranty and repair programs end. Also I wonder how that affects the ability to re-sell it in some years.
I am not a lawyer so I wouldn't be able to comment on the meaning of "entity", I hope you are right though, and I also hope that the Australian Government would at least clarify the meaning of the provision and the legal definition of "entity" in this specific case.
Physics from symmetry looks really fun. Another book for the pile! (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku)
Never trust anyone who attempts to get you to waive your right to collective action, or attempts to force you in to binding arbitration. This is especially true when it comes to employment.

There is never any benefit for you, and it means that they will, one day, try to screw you.
I thought all this security nonsense ended in the 90s when they introduced the IS-MALICIOUS-REQUEST header. It must be, because I haven't seen any web traffic declaring itself malicious since then.
Saw a plumber's vehicle driving around recently with a blatant anti-Chinese sticker on it.
No one has video proof that the 16-player indeed exists.

Until I see it played with real hardware, I am without an ounce of shame, saying it doesn’t work.

The Game Boy has many unsubstantiated information repeated ad nauseum so I’m limping this fabled sixteen player mode with that.
> like everyone else does.

Some people who research white nationalism don't make specific accounts for research purposes [1]. In general, and based on my own usage patterns, I think it's probably dangerous and definitely scary to assume that googling for "X" on your primary account implies that you support "X"

[1] Source: Currently sitting next to someone who is literally a full time white supremacy researcher.
There's a dedicated device, Kardia, which does this; it's fairly low-cost and claims to be able to reliably diagnose AFib. There's also another wearable heart monitor I can't remember the name of, but I had major issues with it because the electrodes weren't hypoallergenic and so caused an uncomfortable rash...
Ah, but what about packets that aren't evil, just gullible and manipulated by some third party?
Coming from Linux and Windows: the Mac touch pad works well. Once you learn the strokes and finger combinations, no mouse is needed. It becomes natural in use. And the control panel has various knobs if you don't like some of the defaults.
I wonder what happens if someone like Le Pen ever gets in charge. Being able to de-naturalize "terrorists" sounds like a pretty serious power that could be abused.
> Some would say it's [...] cognitive decline due to aging

And I say that this assumption without evidence is a textbook example of a prejudice.

Therefore, those "some" are bigots but the good news is they'll stop being it in a few decades, when they'll become the target of this very same bigotry.
> well-established democratic and legal systems

Given the topic at hand, this doesn't seem like a distinct strength of Australia, unless you're coming from a despotic regime or recently New Zealand.
Threads are sensitive to random initial conditions like who happened to be online when an article was posted, so I doubt it says much about 2009.
While that's probably technically feasible, that sounds like something only a terrorist would do anyway. All the more reason to ban the entire program, I say!
Is this the state of start-ups again, inventing something no one wants or needs?
Given the power imbalance that exists between employers and employees arbitration should be illegal in employment contracts.
> Its about allegiance to a country. Not your race.

Also vulnerability to manipulation. So you'll be denied if you're heavily in debt and have a gambling problem, even if you're absolutely loyal and patriotic.
I expect it was more of a teacher issue then. A solid math teacher is worth their weight in platinum.
Does e-verify occur BEFORE the first day of employment?
When your generation has slogans like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Weinberg#%22Don%27t_trust...

what do you expect from the kids and grandkids.
It's really nasty. Imagine how bad the intersection of it must be, like the odds of getting laid off if you're old and black or old and female? I bet the odds approach 100%.
I love that book! It's certainly not an entry point though.
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I'm not super familiar with how ETFs work, but I'm guessing the parallel would be ETFs as ABC players making safe, low variance plays, while the actively managed funds would be a pro looking to capture all of their equity edges, regardless of the assumed variance.

It is well known how they respectively fare in tournaments - the ETF players make it into the money at a somewhat higher rate, but will typically have a middling to low stack with little hope of making a deep run, so they have a lot of low but positive ROI results - a mincash will typically be around 50-100% ROI. However they still may not eke out enough cashes over the long run to be +ROI. The Hedge Fund players on the other hand tend to bust out earlier but when they do run well will amass a huge stack and be well positioned to make a run at winning the whole thing - most of their results will be losses, but because of the super steep payout structures of tournaments, a single big-field victory can be well over 10000% ROI, so a single "bink" can overcome dozens of losses.
They have a few openings listed on their job site, such as https://www.spotifyjobs.com/job/content-programming-manager-...
No that's right, the stable compiler target is someone else's job.

But I wasn't comparing to WebAssembly, so you'll need to argue that point with someone else.

You could build a WebAssembly interpreter on Truffle, yes. I'm not sure anyone's tried it yet so that project is available.
Some are. Most aren't.