skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Such a 51% attack is much more expensive in Ethereum 2.0 vs. Ethereum 1.0 and Bitcoin:

The cost profile of a repeated 51% attack in [Ethereum 2.0's Proof of Stake]
is as if “your ASIC farm burned down” with each additional round.” ~Vlad Zamfir

And 95% of techstars blockchain applicants are building on Ethereum

For all the fud that is doing the rounds about Ethereum...
of the hundreds of applications I receive from blockchain
startups to join @techstars, 95% are building on Ethereum.
There hasn’t been any significant shift to other chains in
what I’m seeing on a daily basis. [1]

So this kind of potential 51% attack is likely to become less relevant for blockchain applications in general. Of course Bitcoin doesn't benefit from these improvements. Bitcoin may one day even reside within Ethereum.

If you read this far and aren't familiar with the latest progress of Ethereum, consider trying out 4.95% interest rate on your money with Ethereum's Compound Finance https://app.compound.finance/asset/cUSDC . Here's a good article discussing the security implications of doing this with your money https://medium.com/@ameensol/what-you-should-know-before-put...

[1] https://twitter.com/yossihasson/status/1169571179650322433
It could also be evidence that WeWork tried to get away with too much with their S-1. Has there been a company in recent memory whose IPO efforts were dogged with this much baggage?
I’m not sure which type of phone you use, but I’ve been meditating off and on for years, and I’ve tried EVERYTHING. The absolute best guided meditations are from an app called “Stop Breathe & Think” - It gives you a 2 question survey and gives you a guided meditation based on what you need for the day. A lot of meditation apps feel very corporate and contrived, but not this one.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.stopbreath...

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stop-breathe-think/id778848692
US-only for now...
Regus was very well known in professional communities, i.e., lawyers, accountants, consultants, before WeWork. Especially during the recession it was a great, professional looking place to meet with clients without the overhead of an office lease.
These bonds have traded below par for a year. The S-1 somehow gave them a pop. If the S-1 is shelved presumably they'll go back to where they were.
I wrote on the subject of cyber warfare and the vulnerability of our nation's utilities first in 2015. At that point, a single malicious actor had gained access to a water treatment plant in Chicago that had no air-gap. They were able to cripple a system by turning a key portion on and off until it burnt out. In 2016, a water treatment plant was targeted in an attack which released high levels of treatment chemicals into the water supply. There is an exceptionally high risk of damage.

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/water-treatment-p...
HL7 is the manifestation of all that is unholy and wrong.
I've been a front end dev for more than 20 years and I often feel the same way. The feeling doesn't go away. You have to fight it, and try to surround yourself with people who'll help reassure you when you need it.
so my car seems to have some sort auto breaking on collision detection. The manual says it can detect pedestrians, cyclists and even dogs.

It doesn't actually work in practise?
What was your point? Is it now just playing with people's fears or do people have good reasons?
It makes sense though. HTTP has been amazingly flexible, and we as a community have kind of done this to ourselves. Email and chat are already primarily done through a browser now, assuming people even bother with that when they have the likes of facebook. Even games are beginning to migrate there. Things like Chromebooks not only exist, but are wildly popular- and they're basically just web browsers in a box.

When everything is moving towards one standard (for better or worse) it makes sense to put your eggs in that basket. Especially when that standard is also your bread & butter as is the case with Mozilla.

The people that this will appeal to will like this just fine I bet.

That all said, I don't like it much either. But I don't know if that's just resistance to change or actual technical reasons.
I wonder if by more people knowing about these options because of WeWork ... if more are actually doing more of it who weren't already?

There could be some value there, maybe, but I've looked at WeWork in my area and it's expensive... for having to share a lot of space. It seems like a high bar to get folks into that.
No individual has any right to make a living doing anything they want to. If sufficient people are willing to do a job at a reduced wage because they enjoy it, that is their right.

This is like saying that libraries should ban unpaid volunteers in order to justify the hiring of more librarians.
I think he's being sarcastic/putting up the opposing view points to his opinion? Phrasing seems like ESL speaker, so it might just be lost in translation.
> so not sure mixing async code with sync code will behave.

I believe there are safeguards in place to be sure you don't accidentally do this.
I agree that if you had a large (in the dozens, if not hundreds) number of dependent components, it could be an issue. However, I've noticed no performance degradation with my usage -- I use a top-level AuthContext component to handle user data/login state, and another for access/caching of the app's main data.

In a single view (for lack of a better term), I'd guess the largest number of components that access either context is six.
> the goal is "infrastructure as code"

You can have infrastructure as code without running a second containment layer on top of the containment layer your cloud provider runs (which describes many k8s deployments).
What about “I don’t” signals that he’s a driver?
How do you know a 175% Price pump is coming, 1 hour in Advance
> occasional contributors

Intel has made 171 contributions in form of commits to glibc as of master today. I doubt they can be considered an "occasional contributor".

And even then, small contributions only get to bypass the responsibility if we're dealing with small bugfixes.
"Why not put 1/3 of your insane military budget towards..."

Heck, why not put 1/3 of the NSA budget towards hardening computers and networks?

I'm afraid that given the choice between:

. Everyone is surveilled.

. No one is surveilled.

They'll always pick the first, even with the best intentions.

It's for the children.
This is really cool! It's interesting that you call it "cyberpunk," though. With a few exceptions, it seems like generic sci-fi to me; it wouldn't be out of place on Star Trek, I think.

If you asked me to imagine "cyberpunk web design," I would probably say HTML 1.0 with green-on-black text. Cyberpunk as a visual aesthetic is usually rooted in the dark future as seen from the '80s, all CRTs and chunky cables and Japan Inc.

This is a great look, regardless.
What percent of SWE grads are going to FAANG?

I wouldn’t be surprised if $200k is the top quartile (or higher), but I’d be really surprised if the median is anywhere near that.
i am not a lawyer but ive been a hiring manager for a while so ill give you my understanding.

> free from control and direction of the hiring entity in connection with the performance of the work

An independent contractor should be free to work when, where, and how they want. IE, you can't demand a contractor show up from 9-5 at your office, wearing a company uniform, and following employee policy.

> the person performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business

for example, a company that sells software, might hire a contractor to update their online advertising. The company doesn't sell online advertising or have any expertise in it, and they don't have a need for a full time position for online advertiser.

this one is going to be interesting for uber and lyft. right now, they identify and brand themselves as a ride sharing company. So rides ARE their business model. They might, for example, be able to pivot into a software company that licenses their ride-hailing software to drivers (who are license the software to help run their own independent businesses), then maybe they can get around this after some work. but right now its appears that drivers work for uber and lyft to deliver services to Uber/Lyft customers.

> person is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation or business

this is the most straight forward of them all. If an IC provides their services, the same service, to more than one company, that's a good indication that they are running their own business and not working as an employee for another. Here, Uber and Lyft actually benefit from each other because a lot of drivers drive for both Uber and Lyft. Thats why we've seen both uber and lyft drop their exclusivity arrangements with drivers in recent years.
For those who wish to read about contemporary patients/vectors/what have you, The Phantoms on the Bookshelves by Jacques Bonnet and Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry are quickly read and worth it.
You need to consider that the status quo is "send all your browsing data to everyone, in cleartext".

(where "browsing data" is defined in both cases by the contents of DNS requests)

At minimum I'm more likely to trust that Cloudflare will uphold their contract with Mozilla than that my ISP (Spectrum) isn't happily selling out my browsing data -- and the ISP, unlike Cloudflare, knows my name and address.
First-class Dynamic Types
It's available on Archive.org; https://web.archive.org/web/20130113152941/https://docs.djan...

But I strongly recommend you update ASAP, as v1.4 is likely to be riddled with security holes...

Your best option is to go to this page to understand the upgrade process, https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/howto/upgrade-version/

All information you need to upgrade is on that page, read it carefully.
Godaddy kept messing with my fees, I dropped them once I found a suitable alternative.
It would be awesome to see the Firefox extension integrate Tor and connect through it to the Firefox Private Network, giving us stronger privacy and finally allowing us to browse the web anonymously, without being subjected to constant discrimination, and without being blocked from accessing basic services.
For me, the marvel of word2vec is that we do not need to embedding meaning into words. The move toward semantic understanding and meaning is not essential, but this post think that a semantic representation is the next logical step.
Unsolicited cents of advice, but IMHO, a year off after undergrad makes far more sense than a year off before undergrad. The enlarged skill set should hopefully allow you to try interesting projects in that time, which would typically be a far more useful experience than sitting around and introspecting. Also, there's no fixed you to find out about... You'll keep evolving and changing... So it doesn't make much sense to stop learning/doing for an extended period to analyze :-)
Can you elaborate a bit about Context? I've been curious but wrapping multiple context layers to get multiple values feels awkward and wrapping an object to get CD around that feels like it screws over React rerendering logic.
Stripe is doing some great stuff. But I’d be weary to put all eggs in one basket.
> Mozilla email service

Yes, please
Assuming Twitter TOS prohibit trading in usernames, I'm not sure how you can value a username.

"Strangely, someone I don’t know sent me a Facebook message encouraging me to change my Twitter email address. I assumed this was sent from the attacker but I changed it regardless." – what?
An in Depth Video Series about Building Parser Combinators in JavaScript
Should be marked as a story from 2014
BERT & GPT-2 are state of the art, pre-trained models with transfer learning in mind.
Thanks I will look at removing this.
It’s like “send all your data through your ISP”. It’s up to you which is better. Neither is going to be as good as tor or similar.
Perhaps because Microsoft pays less? (at least according to levels.fyi).
Ready-to-use PWA solutions with a support for GraphQL
This is from 2014, and https://twitter.com/N appears to be back in the hands of Naoki Hiroshima. I'm curious

a) how the account got transferred back (did Twitter support do it)?

b) whether these specific attacks are still possible.
I never understood the need for hooks and how it's used (the example that react doc has for useState is too simplistic for any useful pedagogical reasons) until I saw divjoy's generated code and studied how it used hooks. Then everything clicked and I've been more productive using hooks than I ever had with react classes. I can attest that cognitive load is lower with hooks than with classes.
By what measure? Most I've seen contract through two or more systems at once, or use it as a way to make a bit of money off carpooling to work. No employee does that.
Agreed! I discover many songs through friends who are big on Spotify and it's great. Though my personal approach to discovering new music now is going through the full discographies of artists I love (so neat "seeing" their evolution), and then Shazaming any great song I hear while out and about (and then YouTubing the heck out of that artist to quickly mine for any other potential treasures). So far this has been a wonderful approach, especially since I inevitably end up researching the artists and songs I go through, learning so much more about the background stories like song meanings and the issues of those times.

As an aside, and speaking of the nonmusical elements that make a song popular, three other things that do it for me are when I heard that particular song (huge fan of Garth Brooks' "Callin' Baton Rouge" because it was what my host parents played on a fantastic summer I spent on exchange), and the CD cover or other imagery that's associated with the artist (it actually makes me sad to delete humdrum songs from my library if they have fantastic album covers) are two. The third is the subsection of songs that I grew up with, which is different than those from the summer exchange situation above because these are emotionally tied to a time in my life when everything was fresh and exciting; they were the theme not just songs but entire albums running through the background of my youth. Objectively speaking, there's nothing too special about Oasis or Weezer or ATB or Robert Miles or Darude or Aqua but that they found me in a particularly impressionable time in my life. Simon and Garfunkel are in this gathering as well, but it's just sheer luck that my friends were turning hipster and so I was exposed. They were actually what caused me to spring off from the popular tunes of the day into more timeless classics : )
Hey everyone, I reversed engineered yesterdays FUEL token price pump and tried to find if there was a way to know about it in advance and guess what there was a few.

Hope you like the post and let me know what you think.
PCI rules limit credit card data retention.
William Gibson's Neuromancer and Sprawl Trilogy and other works.

Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash
This page suggests that it's actually $3/mo: https://www.wellsfargo.com/online-banking/software/fees

However, I've been pulling OFX data from my Wells Fargo for years via AqBanking (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Setting_up_OFXDirectConnect) and have never been charged.
Two questions.

Saying the majority as in over 50.01% of the population has insurance is a very low bar. What percentage of the population without healthcare is a sign of a well functioning system to you?

Second, what suggest public funds going to heathcare is a sign of a well functioning private insurance model?
1-2% cashback is highly appealing from here in the UK but shame to see is US only.

Anyone shed any light on why getting cashback cards in the UK is rare compared to elswehre? Personally I found Tandem which gives 0.5% cashback which is nice but not much.

Business wise we decided to use Amex as the rewards are OKish (comes out to like ~0.5% again I think?) and being able to pay for US services on our USD card is nice and does save money. Benefits overall not great though, probably save ~£1k per year compared to just using a bank issued debit/credit card.
never.

California is the 5th largest economy in the world so choosing not to operate in California would be like giving up on a huge piece of the market.

All that will happen is that the cost of goods will increase to cover the cost of increased regulation. This may increase competition somewhat but the size of the CA market will almost certainly make up for it.
Your question is worded to suggest you are not actually open to the answer, but I will try anyway: in antitrust law. You cannot create an open App Store ecosystem, invite in outside developers, and then pivot and kill them all off by steering customers to your own app. Closing off your previously-open ecosystem can be illegal. Read Eastman Kodak Co. v. Image Technical Servs.
Finding One's Own in Cyberspace (1996) [pdf]
on ff mobile site"s scroll seriously lagged. nice visual appeal though
US Treasury 30 year bonds are currently priced over $102.... Calling a bond an IOU doesn't really make sense because you neglect the coupon payments (annual interest). So even though you're paying over $100 to get paid back a $100 principal the yield is still positive because of those coupon payments. Negative yield bonds also exist and are bought for various reasons.

"There isn't an institution in the world that could sell an IOU $100 for $100" is not true
TorButton started that way, but Tor project had to patch the browser with multiple extra toggle and features to strengthen privacy. So it's not the best choice to try it with normal Firefox.

This thing is a simpler Cloudflare proxy that will get banned just like Tor from some places. Just give it time.
The S1 gave them a pop because there was a disclosure that they bought back 33mm.
This is the mantra of all government regulation (which is really just a legislated grab at power):

“I know it’s bad for you, but it will be better for others. And because we think that’s more important, you have no choice.”

An objectively free society is always better than your subjectively “healthy” society.
Maybe, but what makes it less profitable than the use of electricity for anything else? Miners probably have far more capacity to pay high amounts for electricity than, say, someone who just wants to light their home or keep their refrigerator running, no?
> Tangentually, I wish Mozilla also offered paid email hot (or email with a premium plan), which is another service that requires a lot of trust. It would help provide alternative sources of income to keep Firefox alive.

1. If Mozilla email is used to support Firefox in part, then it will be overpriced. I am not sure if many would like to pay more than a token amount for charity.

2. Generally, software companies have increased tendency and incentive to horizontally expand because of the low barriers of entry. These incentives and tendencies are exactly what led to Microsoft and Google become these monopolies that exploit other players in the market to their advantage. I would rather Mozilla remain small, neither vertically integrated (like that attempt at FirfoxOS), or horizontally integrate (like offering email on top of a browser). I say this as someone who uses Thunderbird as their primary email client. The bazaar model of software development protects user freedoms more than the Cathedral model.
The vast majority of 401(k) money is in large-cap mutual funds which don't invest in IPOs.
I think you could make an argument for a 'war', but you need to think less like a Roman and more like a Byzantine.
In a shocking turn of events Quanta Magazine features an author who’s heard of the Many Worlds Interpretation.
AWS. Competes on price, and you have full control of DNS rules via the management console.
Let me just say, I really appreciate your sample text!
Right, why break compatibility when you don't have to?
Forget Electability, Democrats Must Focus on Change
Well from the point of view of your body, your lungs bring oxygen in and take carbon dioxide out.
^cringe
So, I used to believe this too. There's a lot of information that has come out since then, a whole investigative commission, many details, and a lot of people who would have needed to lie consistently and continually to this day.

Sure, it's possible that that happened. Lots of things are possible. It's just so astronomically unlikely at this point that it's not really worth considering until some evidence appears.
I mean, as far as I see it, all this scary new data on our lives is mainly useful so companies can show us marginally better ads.

I mean, I'm sure there's a lot more to it and it's more complicated than that, but I think we'll eventually adjust fine to the big-data world we increasingly find ourselves in.
Epstein Was a Known Sex Offender. Bezos, Musk and Brin Dined with Him Anyway
The reason radio is robust against disaster is because it's peer-to-peer, not because it's analogue.

So, a like-to-like alternative is probably a encrypted local mesh network.
Direct attack on Brex, good to see competition.
Is there really much potential for double-dipping? If you pick up a passenger, you're picking up an Uber customer and getting paid for that, or picking up a Lyft customer and getting paid for that. You can't pick up someone and get paid by Uber and Lyft for the same fare.
If you were writing major libraries that needed to work on both 2 and 3 like many of us were, I suspect your opinion would be different. It was never a case of 'oh we'll just switch to 3 now' because that's not at all how it worked.

> If people spent half as much energy upgrading as complaining, this would have gotten done 5 years ago.

Yeah, right. Look at the creator of Python himself. Took about 3 years to migrate just his employer, and that's a top-tier software shop [1].

I've heard many people talk like you over the years, always being dismissive of the cost to others in python 2 vs 3. The complaints against the migration were not unfounded.

1: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2018/09/how-we-rolled-out-one...
There's no reason they should lose flexibility in terms of hours. That's just made up stuff that Uber puts out to try to make their argument.

If you drive more than 30 hours per week or 120 per month for one company and meet the 5 criteria, you should get benefits and be taxed as an employee for that period from that company, unless you are already receiving benefits from another company.

There is no reason to prevent them from logging in and out when they want.
> if it’s going to be ripped off as soon as gets traction

Isn't this called "competition", and isn't the scope of protections you're seeking covered under trademark law?
Yeah, totally. I was thinking about that in my other comment. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20928597) Cyberpunk as a visual aesthetic is rooted in the '80s.

It's funny watching the flamewars on r/cyberpunk about what does and doesn't count as "cyberpunk." Some people hate it when real-world images pop up there. They can't get their heads around the fact that cyberpunk isn't strictly sci-fi anymore; we've been living in it for at least 20 years.
just like almost all of their products in the beginning
That's a good point, but I think you can get one-year bonds with an annual coupon: that means you get one payment a year from now. So bonds in general aren't IOUs, but there is at least one bond that works like one.