skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin is not anonymous. It does not require a third party to authorize transactions.
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Banks typically have limits on how much you can withdraw or transfer with any given method in a day.
Claiming that a 10db pin drop can be accurately reproduced with only 3 bits per sample without dithering is a rather extraordinary claim, given that human hearing is sensitive to far more than 8 levels of amplitude <= 10db absolute SPL.

A pin drop contains a continuous and gradual decay of the ringing over time, which most certainly is audible (at least subjectively) in more gradations than just 8 levels before reaching 0.

But this isn’t just subjective: Studies have confirmed that humans can hear decibel differences of 1db quite reliably, and can even hear as little as 0.2db subconsciously (this can be objectively measured)!

So long as you can hear a pin drop ringing at 1db, and also at 10db, it’s therefore obviously true that 3 bits per sample (undithered) is insufficient to express this (keep in mind, these samples are linear amplitudes!)

So I’m not sure how you can possibly claim that 3bits is enough to replicate the continuous amplitude decay of a pin drop’s ringing sound. What am I missing?

That’s said, I will now go read your link. I agree dithering is one viable way to expand the dynamic range, but you also seem to be claiming this 3bit pin drop is true without dithering.
> Weather disasters are getting more severe. It is objectively, quantitatively true that weather disasters are getting more frequent and more severe.

Source? What definitions are being used for severity? How is the sample of events selected? Is there a statistically-significant effect or might it be random variation?
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it’s a common misconception: bitcoin is NOT supposed to be anonymous (it has a full ledger), but pseudonymous.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but afaik there is no "eventual" invalidation in bitcoin: either the destination address fails the checksum (so nodes immediately reject the transaction), or you send the funds to an (unused) address where they'll sit forever.
They overpaid big time, fees of approximately $33 would've been sufficient for the transaction to confirm just as fast.
Yes, but first you have to activate it in the protonmail settings.
Interesting. There are 17~18 million BTC in existence[1], so this makes up for about half of a percent of total BTC.

(of course a lot of those BTC are lost forever due to forgotten keys, hard drive crashes, thrown out hard drives, etc, so who knows what the actual amount of accessible BTC is).

[1]: https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/how-many-bitcoins-are-th...
Bitcoin isnt anonymous, and doesn't claim to be.

If you want an anonymous currency check out something like Zcash or monero. They use some fancier crypto to obscure transaction inputs and outputs, which gets you a bit farther towards being anonymous.
You say that, but if I boot a Linux kernel, load X, open a terminal and run bash/vim/general terminal tools, almost everything I'm running is probably using a combination of C89/C99/C++98/C++03, all of which are still well support by GCC and clang.
> It's meant to be anonymous

Unfortunately, Bitcoin (BTC) is not anonymous, as you pointed out. It never was; and with tax laws requiring copious transaction information, it is particularly easily traceable.

That's the idea behind Monero & Co., which tries to mix things up a bit (literally). The anonymity is still not perfect, especially against state-level actors.
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$1 Billion USD at current prices. Having said that in the current SWIFT or any other legacy payment rail, there is no finality in transactions until 30+ days.

Not only that, is that you would have the Eye of Sauron quickly looking at you for moving such quantities especially if it were a private individual or some smaller group that isn't all registered with the powers that be.
I don't understand the downvotes here. There's a long list of British slang words to describe female genitals, and fanny is about the softest.
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Per the paper, in regards to fixing the data set imbalance:

> In order to balance our data, we randomly sampled 12,000 non-hits from the Spotify data and created a new dataset.
This dataset contained approximately 12k non-hits and 12k hits (∼24k tracks total).

Won't a indiscriminate random sampling of the non-hits introduce a temporal sampling bias, as a) music trends change over time and b) music output is not equal across years?
There has to be an app out there that can use the camera to tell you what color the object in front of it is. Though I can imagine it would take some time it would make it possible to do on your own.
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That's not the point of the analogy. The point is that k8 and JAS are designed for "large scale" deployment, whatever that means.

(But yes, you're correct about what "large scale" meant in the early 00's)
Often, but not always. When people generalize, it's an equal error to conjecture that the premise for the generalization is always false in the other direction. Lack of skill/experience is just a nicer way of saying incompetence, and sometimes this is a proximate cause, and sometimes this is actually a root cause, in cases where the person was a genuine bad actor who fooled others into thinking they were qualified for the position.

Now of course there are many times where this is used as a crutch to blame system problems, but I've found a trend towards the idea that it's never due to lack of skill/experience on the part of an individual, and always due to some other root cause. That seems equally incorrect, and good judgement about the cause should be agnostic to how one feels about the idea of saying an individual failed at their jobs (which usually isn't a pleasant feeling for most.)

On the upside, one should actually expect people to fail at their jobs occasionally within certain boundaries, in order for them to grow. So failures to due to 'incompetence' (not negligence) should be often accepted and blameless, given they should be happening occasionally if you are pushing people past their limits. The best way to ensure someone doesn't make large categories of mistakes is to let them make one with a small blast radius, and having them take responsibility for addressing the failure and remediations. (This isn't at odds with blamelessness -- most ethical people will accept responsibility for their failures and correcting them, if they are able to fail in an open, respectful environment)
another way to read:

someone just gave someone else a billion dollars tax free.

that is a major problem.
A billion was moved and we don’t know the identity of the person. Not sure what you are describing.
thanks to the both of you. (MathematicalArt and jacques_chester)

Time to buy some books!
When I said session info, I meant only the session ID - I was not suggesting storing other session info locally as well :)
How long ago did you quit?
An Android app and an iPhone app are not compatible goods. You cannot replace one with the other. Try installing an APK on the iphone and let me know how that goes.

The "market" is smaller than you think. A classic way to determine alternatives to a product is by asking "if I raise the price of all apps, how many people will buy something else?" Iphone owners are kinda stuck eating the increase, aren't they?

Apple controls 100% of the iPhone app market. An iPhone owner made a $1000 investment into their phone and cannot just switch to Android. Apple takes advantage of that fact for their own benefit.
I don't think it was really "meant to be anonymous". The original whitepaper at https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf has a section on privacy, which mentions that public keys can be kept anonymous but acknowledges that all transactions are announced publicly:

> The traditional banking model achieves a level of privacy by limiting access to information to the parties involved and the trusted third party. The necessity to announce all transactions publicly precludes this method, but privacy can still be maintained by breaking the flow of information in another place: by keeping public keys anonymous. The public can see that someone is sending an amount to someone else, but without information linking the transaction to anyone. This is similar to the level of information released by stock exchanges, where the time and size of individual trades, the "tape", is made public, but without telling who the parties were.

> As an additional firewall, a new key pair should be used for each transaction to keep them from being linked to a common owner. Some linking is still unavoidable with multi-input transactions, which necessarily reveal that their inputs were owned by the same owner. The risk is that if the owner of a key is revealed, linking could reveal other transactions that belonged to the same owner.

Recently there are newer cryptocurrencies like Monero and ZCash that focus specifically on anonymity/privacy.
The key was probably compromised. Even if I realized the vulnerability a day later, for that amount of money I'd still pay 700 to make sure I don't come in a couple seconds late.
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Whether or not it's factually true, this is good news.
New salt-based propellant proven compatible in dual-mode rocket engines
No human being would ever transfer 1B through 'Western Union'. I am sorry, but that's not a legit comparison.
> What we call “DevOps” is really a delicate balance of giving the dev teams enough rope to hang themselves while child-proofing the gallows.

Oh, dear, @wayoutthere, my dev team is about to hate you because I'm going to use that quote extensively over the next few weeks... (giggle...)
Not a single search, but many searches done repeatedly over time, proving the result is highly unlikely to be happenstance. Oh, and the results only happened to changed after Spotify launched an official complaint. The WSJ article the NYT links to is even more detailed.
I've heard "orientate" for "orient" quite a few times, though maybe it was occidental.
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Good Q.

It has to do with the buyer's ability to determine what the code quality is. I think people are limited in their ability to quickly assess code quality. Myself, I spent two days reviewing a system to give it a clean bill of health, but six months later my boss said that it shouldn't have been written at all and I agreed.
Exactly. It's a beautiful concept: the server is roughly half the TCO per gigabyte. That can decrease significantly with better architectures, as shown by this.

But making it 2x1GbE is a huge complicating factor. And 2.5GbE is way out of the cost curve per bps.
Would arsenic bronze have any added toxic effects?
Exactly. 561 people were murdered in Chicago in 2018, 337 people were killed in mass shootings across the entire United States. The media unsurprisingly focuses on the mass shootings because they are unexpected and rare.
No dollars were transferred. If you want to convert it to actual things you can spend you have to pay an exchange at least 1% on either end. You're comparing moving around intermediate representation to something you can actually use, like a bank moving bits around in its internal ledger. WU is not a good comparison for large-quantity FOREX, InteractiveBrokers is one of your many options, and they charge a commission of $20 per million, which is at most a $20K fee not an $8M fee.

With that in mind you seem to be conflating a FOREX transfer with a bank-to-bank transfer which you can use a $30 (or as cheap as free) wire to more the whole billion instantly.
Not a dark pattern, an accidental leftover string from our testing. Any account registered before today qualifies. I'll deploy a fix to that shortly. Update: deployed, although you may need to restart your app to update the text.
For some reason the HN software killed your other comment in this thread. This one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20920071

I vouched for it, but I have no idea if my vouches count for anything.
Woz had a similar experience
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This seems to be incredibly well correlated with the increase in use of oil based thickening agents, particularly for black market cartridges. This year we've seen a lot of these products gain popularity, along with the rise of people selling cartridges in packages that look legitimate (Dank Vapes, Mario Karts, etc.) but are just cartridge packages, with no company selling THC carts with that name or product line existing. We've also seen a rise of rip-off packaging of real brands appearing on sites like AliExpress. People purchase these, fill them with something that resembles THC concentrate, and then sell them.

I know that correlation isn't causation, but my gut feeling is that we're going to find out that these additives are the culprit. To my knowledge, we're not seeing any reports of this occurring for people that are part of a state-run and well regulated medical marijuana program, where many of these products have been available for years. For recreational use, even in states that have legalized it, the stringency of regulations vary for dispensaries, so I don't know that I would necessarily assume that a cartridge purchased at a dispensary is necessarily safe from this sort of thing, either.

I'm not a research scientist or medical professional of any sort, though, so no one should take any of this as anything but a layman's PoV.
Good, but combine this with enforcement of homeschool and no school standards so you can protect all children and not just the ones with decent parents.
Most Americans probably think news quality is getting worse.
How does compromising a GitHub or HN account compromise the linked Keybase account? Yes, you can link to those accounts on Keybase, but the trust relationship is going the other way: Keybase is proving that you had access to those accounts (on a particular day).
Thanks. Yes, it has the ability to preview images, gifs, videos, mp3's, and code. We are starting to build out more functionality around syncing it with your LocalStack buckets as well.
Well if I were to show up at the bank wanting to transfer $1bn I am sure I would get all kind of stares, but can not see a technical reason why they would not be able to do it. Difference with Bitcoin is you can do it completely anonymously, for all the good and bad things that go with that.
It is a work in progress: https://ahal.ca/blog/2019/python-3-at-mozilla/
Bitcoin was never meant to be anonymous. It was designed to be stateful. The only information that is visible is the wallet address. And if you work at it long enough you can tie that back to the owner. It’s more anonymous through obscurity.

Now, there true anonymous cryptocurrency but bitcoin isn’t one of them.
Keep in mind that our results and findings, while making "sense" post-hoc, are predicated on our process and procedure being correct, which honestly, as complete newbies to the whole field, was roughly a coin flip.
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It isn't anonymous.

Having a public transaction record makes it possible, even easy to identify and track behaviors of anyone.

Everyone you give money to knows exactly where all of that money has been and presumably who you are.

You can make it more anonymous by doing some things, but then it's just ordinary money laundering, but honestly, more difficult.
I guess Uk should have built a competing search engine then. Of course Google is American(ish).
There aren't simpler ways to deploy cluster software. Kubernetes might be overkill for a blog, but it's not overkill for a lot of cluster software. And with Helm charts it's really easy to run it.
Because governments could regulate this currency. With improving blockchain analysis technologies, they can watch, audit and impose tax.

The only thing lacking is the control by the government.
"Can I bum a fag?" still being used too!
As far as the fees being so cheap, and every one else guessing about how expensive it would be to do it in a normal banking situation, F. Scott Fitzgerald is relevant:

"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different." (The Rich Boy, 1926)

All of the information normal people--like you and me--use to price transactions like this is completely irrelevant. Rich people have access to many services and price structures that are completely different than normal people. Any guess about what it costs to make a transaction like this via normal channels is likely completely wrong (other than "free", assuming they are doing business with the bank in question).
It let me sign up with this new HN account, but I'm also getting the 3 devices block.
>On the other hand, Apple products are (or were) frequently marketed towards the tech illiterate

This becomes a vicious self-justifying cycle that is profitable for Apple but harmful to those consumers, who are kept tech illiterate when they're denied the opportunity to step outside their comfort zone and learn something new.
No, algorithms can be used as tools to hide payola far better. If someone subtly tweaks the algorithm to favor a certain artist, how do you ever catch that?

It's particularly concerning because there did a study that showed in different control groups of music listeners, new songs became popular just based on which ones became popular earlier.

I mean, try this trick on yourself: find a random song and listen to it 20 times. Odds are you'll like it a lot better after the first several listens than the first time.

If in addition to that all your friends happened to know and like the song, and they started advertising the artists heavily, bam! It's a hit. It's just groupthink, and we're all susceptible to it.
Yes.

There have been other analyses of recaptcha before, but it is an incredibly detailed, complex piece of software.

"Old school" captchas (i.e. have a human do something that is difficult for a computer) are getting more and more useless because there aren't many quick, easy tasks left that almost all humans can do that few computers can do, and they are vulnerable to mechanical turk farms.

So Google's approach now is basically they know so much about your average user (especially your average Chrome user) that it is very difficult for a bot to affordably "replicate" this user behavior over time. The downside is, of course, that Google knows so much about you.

Any proof-of-work scenario like this is pretty much doomed to fail, because is will be slowest on consumer devices (i.e. phones) and fastest on dedicated bot farms with rows of GPUs/ASICs designed to solve the problems.
When there is an e coli outbreak, authorities are very specific about which batch of produce was affected. They don't say to stop eating all spinach or all vegetables.
This is another case of "I have never encountered and don't deeply understand the problems this tool was built to solve, thus the tool is totally unnecessary and the people who use it are part of a cult".

This is the same kind of flawed reasoning you see in the front-end world where a bunch of people complain that they do all their work in jQuery so React must be a cult.

Pasting what I wrote in another comment:

The goal isn't "ease of deployment", the goal is "infrastructure as code" so that application infrastructure can be managed in a way similar to application source code (e.g. PRs, blame, code reviews, CI, rollbacks etc). This helps ops people because it allows them to think about infrastructure as abstract resources rather than as a collection of individual machines with specific designations. With k8s, individual machines become a homogenized resource that do not need specialized provisioning depending on the application they will host.
Why are you assuming any of the guests knew they were underage as opposed to just young?

Why are you assuming that the guests in general knew they were there there for any other reason than the waitstaff at hooters is there for? -- To host the event and be attractive.

If things were as you seem to imagine them, why are the victims who have come forward not even alleging that?
One in 3,652 people born in the UK between 1938 and 1967 show extreme inbreeding
If the CDC weren't explicitly prevented from studying gun violence[1], they might be able to look into these problems. It's too soon to know if the recent (2018) changes to the interpretation will make a difference.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey_Amendment
Banks typically treat billionaire customers differently too, it's absolutely ludicrous to think they'd have to use hundreds of thousands of transactions (let alone pay for them!).
Maybe they meant folded as if it was creased. Most wallets do not need bills to be creased to fold.
Does this create tax implications for all HN users?
I am reminded of the conference NIPS being forced to re-brand because the word “nips” is offensive apparently. It’s not been used as a racial pejorative since the 1940s. A nip is a synonym for a wee dram, over here, if it means anything at all. Or an abbreviation of catnip perhaps.
I think k3s is sort of trying to do that?
International wires are a bad example because they charge a huge FOREX spread. For a high-ticket transfer, you'd need to use a brokerage for the exchange first, which is also very cheap, but a bit more than $25 ($20 per million at InteractiveBrokers). Then a very cheap domestic wire for the last mile. Or, for small-ticket transfer TransferWise is around 0.85% for the whole exchange.
Apart from the fact that it can potentially run forever, which can be unacceptable in certain contexts.
I'm mostly puzzled by the fact that someone would let $1 billion sit in a wallet without earning interest...
I feel you should be okay with that. It is just an extension of what you have accepted: Apple makes the hardware, software… and owns/controls the App Store.
> completely anonymously

Except we're all out here talking about this and no one knows what other $1bn transactions have occurred in the banking system today so we're not talking about those.