skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, one thing is that the amount you mine isn’t linear in your hash power, it is proportional to the proportion of the hash power that you control.

Also, measures of how centralized the mining is, is widely believed to have a substantial impact on the price. Miners may believe that if they were to purchase enough mining power to control a majority, that the price they could sell the tokens for would go down, actually reducing their profit. Whether this actually would reduce their profit, I don’t know. Also, conceivably, if they were to buy more mining power, possibly their main sources of competition might respond in kind, resulting in the same income, but higher costs.

By a similar argument to the “avoid there being a majority”, might also want to avoid the case where “if just one large miner drops out, there would be a majority” if people think there is a non-trivial chance of such a miner dropping out.

There is, as I understand it, a relatively small collection of large miners such that together they would comprise a majority. Perhaps this is around the smallest number of independent entities that people will expect to be large enough that they will not collude to do bad stuff, and therefore no miner will buy enough additional mining power to cause this number to shrink, out of fear of making the price go down?

I don’t know, these are just some ideas.
Disappointing that this appears rather easy, but hardware access usually means game over.
The Making of a Harvard Feeder School (2013)
Salesforce will adopt Microsoft's cloud, as the companies cozy up again
Are there ML models that can detect a faked / synthesized voice, even if we can't?
Why? It has a selfie cam just like any other phone
Yes, assuming there's no flaws in the interpreter. But they're all moving full steam ahead in the browsers right now, so imagine it's deemed as safe as javascript. The current push is to divvy up the permissions of certain resources such as sockets and filesystem (browser code don't have filesystem access) and make an API to ensure that modules don't overstep their granted permissions. It'll probably look a lot like node and npm, where you could add a module to your source and know that it can't access things it shouldn't. Pretty exciting stuff. It's a true merger of all languages together under one runtime.
How could there be enough samples of his voice? Seems like quite a jump to “it was a deep fake” unless there’s more info they haven’t revealed
> I see this as a good thing because someone will become the password manager for large companies, and that someone will likely become the password manager

A) 1Password was already well on its way to doing this (a lot of large companies seem to be using it);
B) I'm not sure that it follows necessarily that the largest corporate option will become the largest consumer option.
The bigger news is the police attacked an university in Hong Kong. Thousands of rounds of tear gas and rubber bullets were fired.
> AI sees humans as thread

We shall all be woven into the fabric of the new artificial reality.
"I know the thought is horrifying to some, but a fully-grown adult can be perfectly presentable on 2-3 showers a week."

That's a very boring and sedentary life you're describing.

Not muddy/dusty from bike rides / trail runs ...

Not covered in sawdust / motor oil / gunpowder residue ...

Not covered in other peoples' body fluids from wrestling / boxing / BJJ ...

It's not a horrifying thought, not showering every day - it's a depressing thought.
The term is useful, in that it distinguishes this (surveillance capitalism) from surveillance by governments, which (until recently) was the usual form.
This is normal journalism. Are you surprised?
Those aren’t really “significant problems and vulnerabilities”: any given node can lie about what time it is, but you’re not trusting a particular node for more than the outcome of a single contiguous block—and block difficulty “velocity” is capped—so you’d need a Sybil attack to actually walk the difficulty down. Otherwise, even at 49% malicious nodes, consensus is just going to bounce between nodes that say the time was really short, and nodes that give “regular” timestamps, keeping the difficulty roughly constant within the network’s margin of error.

Really, the timestamp field in most PoW systems’ “block” structs (Bitcoin’s, Ethereum’s, etc.) is just defined as “a number that is higher than the one in the parent block, and not so high that when interpreted as a POSIX timestamp it would land 30+ seconds in the future relative to the local node’s time.” So you just need >50% of the nodes to have a ±30s clock sync in order to agree on which blocks are valid for consideration; and even if you don’t have that level of synch, those blocks will still become valid eventually, once they’re old enough that all the nodes do consider them to be in the past. (And most PoW systems keep around near-“future” blocks until they’re valid for just such a case.)
I wonder how much of it is based in fear of losing their creature comforts. Anger can definitely stem from perceiving a threat subconsciously and not realizing the cause and effect happening very quickly within your own amygdala/brain.
Grapefruit I can see, but what kinds of melons are there that aren't sweet? The most common melons I can think of (watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew) are all quite sweet. Through googling I found some other melons that appear to mostly be from asia, although I've never seen them in person, and there descriptions mention sweetness as well. Do you have examples of savory melons?
LinusTechTips made a video recently where they took an Intel Skulltrail, which is an enthusiast dual-socket Core 2 Quad platform from 2008(!), through a modern OS and game test. They platform was struggling until the enabled the Vulkan API in games. We have consoles to thank for that, without the low speed, high core count CPUs of the PS4 and Xbox One there'd be little justification for optimizing games for Vulkan and DX12
Most of the AUM are in portfolios that are benchmarked to something (Barclays/Bloomberg US Aggregate for example). Although recently there has been a surge in unconstrained bond funds which have more latitude in terms of what they hold and with a looser benchmark.
Managers start with a benchmark and then make 2 main choices. 1) how much should I deviate in terms of asset type exposure (benchmark is 40% IG corporate, should I do 50% and overweight?) and 2) within each asset type exposure which securities should I select (within my IG corporate sleeve should I choose the newly issues IBM bonds, old issue IBM bonds, Apple?, etc).
Most managers are still pretty manual so the are doing deep securit research and are picking company A over company B but there is some movement to a more quant approach where you pick metrics and do a broad screen across all of those companies. The data across all of the bonds especially outside of just investment grade is hard to get access/clean so that has been a barrier to entry for a while. As the data becomes more available more managers will be using screens like has been commonly been done in equities.
I've been able to smell infections (which makes sense, the immune response of an infection would mis with your whole microbiome). That's pretty different from smelling Parkinson's.
Fair enough. I was more thinking multiple primary cameras with different focal lengths. Most flagships now have 2+ primary cameras with different focal lengths.
>Amazon has done little if anything to combat counterfeiting.

This article is entirely about Amazon doing something to combat counterfeiting...
Very frustratingly, there's no Linux client and they recommend 1PasswordX for Linux users, which doesn't allow offline vaults, pretty sure it _requires_ 1Password's online service.
> Am I the only one who considers this a good thing?

This company over the years has, multiple times, basically ripped the rug out from under its users (moving to online vaults, hiding native app, switching from a single fee to monthly charge) so I really don't see it as a positive.

From comments in here it seems like they'll be focusing on Enterprise. That just leads me to assume they'll listen to consumer feedback even less.
Without seeing the errors it's difficult to say. GCC 4.7 is really old (2012), and there are only a few areas I can think of off the top of my head that might trigger such problems, mostly related to C11 support and buggy feature detection or erroneous usages by older code, such as static_assert definitions or tests, possibly directly or indirectly related to older glibc headers. Interestingly, most of the C-related changes from 4.7 to 4.9 are related to C11.

GCC has been less aggressive compared to clang in adding diagnostics to -Wall that trigger on correct code; -Wno-missing-field-initializers and -Wno-override-init come to mind, but those predate 4.7. -Wexpansion-to-defined is super annoying, but that came much later (GCC 8?), and strictly speaking it triggers on undefined behavior--it's just that the undefined behavior was extremely convenient, pre-dated GCC, reliably supported (at least for the most common and possibly only usages) on almost all if not all major compilers, and is the only possible approach for writing lazy feature detection macros that can be defined in library headers without include'ing possibly unused headers, polluting the namespace.
I agree and can somewhat chime in. I am not a lawyer. I have spoken to folks that would be involved if we receive an NSL. We would obey the NSL regardless of GDPR. For standard legal requests, I am not sure of the current status of what we would do. AFAIK no U.S. company will risk disobeying the gag order and compliance aspects of a national security letter.
>At least 10,000 wealthy people left the country to avoid paying the tax; most moved to neighboring Belgium

Unlike many countries, US citizens can't escape US income tax by moving out of the country, income tax must be paid regardless of the geographic source of income.
I've been able to use fingerprint-to-unlock Bitwarden on my Android phone for more than a year, IIRC.
I think the difficulty is in making a lightweight Electron app, not a fast one. Games run fast too, but they can get away with hogging resources because they're typically the only app you're using at the time.
Gaff: Lófaszt, nehogy már. Te vagy a Blade ... Blade Runner. [Hungarian: "Horsedick, no way! You are the Blade ... Blade Runner."

Horsedick, is that a call/ref to VALIS? I.e. Horselover?
Light-induced charge density wave in LaTe3
I was actually really impressed with 1passwordX, it made me switching off of OSX almost a non-issue but you're right, I didn't realize it didn't support offline vaults. They really don't like that.
I normally don't bother but this comment is so profoundly ridiculous I had to say something.

Tenured ML professors at the top 100 or so universities in the world aren't "most of us". A very large chunk of these people are geniuses. Those jobs are incredibly hard to get, and most of these people are reading everything that is getting published, on an ongoing basis, and are outputting something novel, on an ongoing basis.

The fact that you think that John Carmack, because he's a name that you've actually heard of, is going to go into ML and suddenly make some giant advance that all the poor plebs in the field weren't able to do, is only a reflection of your misunderstanding of what's already happening in academia, not on Carmack's skills or abilities.

You're acting as though everyone are just low level practitioners using sklearn, and it would be a great idea to have some smart people work on developing something novel. Guess what: that's already happening, with incredibly smart people, on an incredibly large scale. Carmack doing it would just be another drop in the bucket.
I went looking for release notes. Doesn't look like they exist, per se.

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-7/changes.html is about the entire GNU 7 series, but it's not broken down by release. The list of tickets closed is mentioned at the bottom:

> GCC 7.5: This is the [ https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED... ](list of problem reports (PRs)) from GCC's bug tracking system that are known to be fixed in the 7.5 release. This list might not be complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed are not listed here).
> Just taking a docker image from a developer and deploying that to production does not work to well in my experience, and guess who gets the support calls when things break?

In my experience, that's been about the same for any mode of deployment by a developer without ops experience. The main thing Docker added was standardizing the mechanics and avoiding certain classes of errors like not having reproducible builds or deploying local artifacts inconsistently.
My dream would be that Carmack would go toward Douglass Hofstadter and they'd move us toward forms that flawed human intelligence has been striving toward, rather than reifying flaws. I wish the people capable of helping with that could help with that and then I hope that the rest of us could all gather together to solve the loneliness CATACLYSM.
I found this out when asking myself the question "are animals fooled by artificial sweeteners". The rabbit hole that that led into is not only do we not know the answer to that question, many animals don't even taste "sweetness" (or if they taste it they don't like it or don't prefer it). Not even all primates, if I recall correctly.

And we've seen drift -- apparently we used to be able to bait cockroaches with sweet bait (through the middle of the century), but they have adapted to it and it no longer works as bait.

Taste and smell are very strange and defy attempts at reductionism; our brains are basically very evolved olfactory organs. Dealing with smells was so hard that brains evolved to deal with the problem, and then it was just evolution asking the question "what else can we do with this giant block of computational power -- what about ... memory? vision? hearing?"
Electricitymap.org South Korea current generation mix: https://www.electricitymap.org/?wind=false&solar=false&page=...
Five seconds is enough
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21525878
I think your use of the term “lie” here is a bit extreme.
The problem is that LAN only can't be verified as long as that LAN also has a route to the public internet. It could be LAN only for the first week so that it passes your initial smoke test, and then goes on to do whatever it wants. Or a firmware update could add new mothership pinging features.

If you want LAN only, you really need to put the device on a LAN that is actually isolated, and use a trusted device to bridge that gap so that you can shuttle commands and responses from your actual network.

I cobbled together my own system that works kind of like this using a raspberry pi and hostapd, and it works quite well for most things.
Oof, you're right, it's missing TouchID in OSX which was my problem, should've clued me in after I said electron app..

https://community.bitwarden.com/t/touch-id-support-for-macos...
The Deal Jeff Bezos Got on Basecamp (2017)
Parahydrophobicity of vertically aligned carbon nanotube forests
Go goes pretty fast, especially if you program it like C (avoiding memory allocations).
> But Kennedy's biggest concern at the moment is in the area of automotive safety

No doubt. I was pricing out a Mercedes online, and looking through the summary one of the standard features was "over-the-air updates". That is the last thing in the world I want. An expensive car shouldn't be acting like an Android phone. It shouldn't be connected to the internet at all.

If it's updating anything other than the entertainment system, then they're completely nuts. Get the internet out of my car, I already have a phone for that.
An Ode to TableView
and the reason I went to their cloud solution, is so that I can sync passwords between my iPhone, Mac, PC, and Linux machines. It's $35.88 for an entire year of something that I use constantly, every day, and it works perfectly.
Agreed. We had a bronze PowerBook and replaced the DC socket on it over and over before giving up. Worse yet, the socket was underneath a bunch of stuff inside the laptop, so the process was even slower than it might be.

And then there's all the guitar pedals I make with chassis-mounted jacks... they can take an amazing amount of abuse.

Same for audio jacks. PCB-mounted 3.5mm jacks need resoldering often enough, but panel-mounted lasts forever.
When I owned my own house, I installed a set of filters that removed hardness and various "bad things". Fix the problem upstream, so to speak.

In rented accommodation, it would depend on the landlord, unfortunately. (I'm sure there are many great landlords out there, but there are also a lot of bad ones who do the absolute minimum to avoid judicial penalties)
Yes, I think you did. Indeed it's almost embarrassingly cheap, about 25p for a 10 minute shower.
A WiFi hotspot with enough antennas can be run as a wall penetrating radar and measure pose, heart rate, and breathing, so a white-hat system would call the ambulance well before any humans could reach the scene even from the next apartment in the same corridor.

I’m more worried about blackmailers prying into sex lives.
Funding from investors betting on the future value of a business built on the huge user base of Docker’s free products.
The Pixel 3a has teeny tiny bezels, and now my fingers accidentally activate stuff at the screen edges while I'm holding it. This is progress, I guess.
Perhaps, when you were a teenager, your friends/relatives just had particularly awful-smelling saliva.
Can anyone brighter than me tell me the more specific names of the "brass mist nozzles" and "6mm hose adapter"?
Is there a plan to bring together a bunch of these extensions under one roof with a package/dependency manager similar to cargo or npm, or is it intended to be glued together on the developer side? To me this looks massive, like to be able to pull down modules knowing what permissions they need, and to be able to have some kind of assurances that the code can't misbehave.
Yes, immediately, we use LastPass in the corporate world, and it's horrific to deal with. Slow, bloated, mess of an interface.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21172569 is a good discussion on it.
two words make the difference: "your data"
Ask HN: What are your goals for 2020?
Your female friends don’t complain to you when they’re on their periods? That seems like part of the line between “friend” and “just an acquaintance”, to me.
Anything with a backlight.

As for night vision, you mean when wearing vision enhancement optics? I did not fully understand you the first time, I thought you meant night vision as in 'night adapted eyes', where you'd lower the intensity as much as possible not to ruin your night vision. Not sure what the implications would be for electronically enhanced optics but if they use a display you could of course put the map straight on the display?
Only for the sailors who like to remain alive and well...
I see I was rather oblique, but I brought up the fun fact because that equation is how Penrose proved it (to account for signs). By the way, the TWF article is citing the Bar-Natan paper.
They allow PRs against forks too, which is a useful feature for working on something until you're ready to submit it.

But the answer is because GitHub doesn't distinguish what is and isn't a mirror (last I checked there was no mirror functionality like GitLab or Gitea). Plus, I don't think they let you disable PRs.
This. Technical verification solutions help, but none of them defend very well against your CEO apparently ordering you to bypass the verification step.
Poor internal controls on the CEO's team part.
I kinda disagree, though I suppose it depends on the paper bag.
No there is no registry "coop" afaik but this would be very cool. Maybe in the next round of TLD applications?
Its almost _never_ RICO:

https://www.popehat.com/2016/06/14/lawsplainer-its-not-rico-...
Yes, I don't know why some brands didn't already try this. But I think this is all about looking for foldable screen applications.

I wouldn't mind a thin gap between two screens as long as you won't notice it too much while swiping.

But maybe it's very difficult to make a hinge that keeps the screen a µm apart all the time.
Nvidia Makes 3D Deep Learning Research Easy with Kaolin PyTorch Library
Can anyone comment on the IOMMU-grouping on typical boards? From what I've just googled, the CPU "lanes" seem to support ACS so it could indeed be working to replace my IGP+GPU-for-the-gaming-VN-Haswell system with a dual-GPU-Ryzen one (contrary to what I believed previously).

Have been eyeing TR for that reason, but as I don't really need this amount of I/O (and cores), I might be well served by AM4.
The paper isn't intended to be a manual for how to practically compare agents. It will indirectly help there, I hope, by making people realize that they're looking at an election problem, and that there's a big existing literature on that subject. So in the practical case, say you have 10 different benchmarks, and some agents perform better at some of them, and others perform better at others. You could approach the problem from scratch, but it would be helpful for you to realize "oh this is an election with 10 voters and people have been studying how to decide elections for hundreds of years, I probably shouldn't reinvent the wheel". For example, it might take you many ages to essentially rediscover the Condorcet paradox and you might put inordinate effort into futilely trying to "solve" that paradox. Or you could stand on the shoulders of giants and avoid all that! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_paradox
No news at all, not even for us as registrars.
Usually when you're trying to ship something, the more boring (predictable) parts the better.
I have 3 of these installed in my house. they are pretty amazing. Wouldn't go back to a conventional shower head.
You're discounting several possibilities.

Yogurt has protein, and many varieties have a lot of fat. Pastries tend to be fatty (butter/lard). Honey's less obvious, but my cat would lick clean wooden spoons just for the texture; perhaps yours likes something about the stickiness?
Seems really cool and we are going to test it. Do you plan on releasing a ready to use docker image?

If not, we might do it as soon as we find the time.
With the rise of pervasive surveillance, I think the choices we all make are going to cease to be important. We can be micromanaged into making the "right" ones. We truly become cogs in an uncaring, world destroying machine, with no more agency than rats in lab experiments. For people with a strong conformity streak, this may sound fine. If you don't like being told what to do, and don't like the direction of society in general, it's pretty dismal.
Wow, HK police, backed from Chinese gov, is desperate to attach an university! WTF are they thinking? Why provoke students in campus... No idea what's going on.

PS: I am shocked by this activity. Even during the communism revolution, the government has left the university intact. The HK policy lost their mind...
We should begin by giving a clear definition of AGI. I’m talking about an unambiguous universally accepted definition akin to defining what a “continuous function” is. Until that point this is merely an argument about words, to paraphrase John Locke.
Pretty much, yes. It's kind of spelled out in the Nakamoto paper. From the introduction:

" In this paper, we propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer distributed timestamp server to generate computational proof of the chronological order of transactions."

Everything else in Bitcoin is just turning that timestamp server into a practical(ish) system.
I agree, but the problem is that school is already a full-time job. You can't add much additional work without risking owerworking your kids.
clearly the most efficient solution is to pontificate about other people's implementations while never having done anything of the sort at that scale yourself.