skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm unclear what level you're asking this at.

-- Modeling: You start with basics like using the small universe assumption to bound checking to X transactions. I'd expect most front running to show up as small cycles here, so the typical case is a super small X. Later, you might get into a time cost semantics to better tune what you consider interesting, but almost no one in the crypto space is at the level of modeling maturity. I'd predict a team's time is way better spent building up a stdlib of contract checks, verified contract helpers, & whitebox attack heuristics/guides.

-- Modeling II: Also, in verification, it's way better (ex: realizes more of the ROI) to verify the program has the properties you want ("money goes from a->b without getting stuck"). You can dream up individual attacks and model those one by one ("front-running where ..."), but then you potentially miss some, or some aspect of one. That's basically the difference between verification and testing. You still do stuff like check sample scenarios & individual attacks, but that's more about testing the verification conditions & model fidelity.

-- Fixes: A good (while still cheap & easy) checker gives you summarized examples of attacks. Likewise, it makes it interactive, so you can tune what you consider in/out of scope. More R&D-level verifiers suggest patches (verification and synthesis are two sides of the same coin), but that's not necessary. If your idea sucks or the attack is unavoidable, the verifier isn't the problem, and if you decide to still proceed with the now proven-bad idea, you can at least now price the risk in.
And similarly https://libro.fm for audiobooks
also call quality seems to be better or hold up better
I work in the crypto space and the ability to side step regulations that I find ridiculous is a main selling factor. Red tape has stifled not just the financial space but the entire economy. If you want to cut hair you need 2000 hours of training and tens of thousands of dollars paid to scam schools, when YouTube and brochure on how to sweep hair from the floor is perfectly adequate. How is regulation fair again?
I'm tired of these comments stating that the headline should not be surprising. Can you just accept that not everyone's life is fixated on the subject at hand, and that this still constitutes "news" for them?
Do you want Fortnite on your iPhone, here’s how. Ask Epic for the source code (I am sure they will just give to you), build the app with xCode, and deploy it to your phone. And you are good to go.
I doubt at this point China wants to buy anything american. Plus Tesla does not have a good history of production neither quality.
Most trading is automated. This is not something that's unique to smart contract platforms. How come the world didn't end already?
Not every high-hertz LCD will be better than a CRT in every dimension - black levels and off-angle viewing being the two points that a CRT could hope to lead on - but a 120hz OLED, on the other hand...
I don’t disagree with your claim here, but aren’t existing systems even worse? The conventional electronic payments system is in many ways permissionless. Even if crypto doesn’t live up to all the promises it makes, it may still add value.

If crypto is building poorly-engineered space elevators to get out payments to and from the sky, maybe the current system is throwing them in artillery and parachutes and hoping they land where you aim.
I'm sure its covered in your linked articles, but it is worth pointing out that for many Americans, water is delivered by a pumped well that is dependent on electricity.

So if you shut off electric service, you may also be cutting off access to water. Alternative water sources can be very expensive by comparison.

https://www.circleofblue.org/2018/world/infographic-househol...
Indeed, that does seem to happen often. Though in GGP's case the reply was posted within a minute of the original comment.
It has found a way! Through engineering. We invented wheels, and we’re a result of evolution. Dung beetles have engineered something similar, although no axle (yet).
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No, actually I didn't have any twitter followers and no email list aswell. I did few things right. I didn't mean the goal was very easy but because I set it relatively small instead settings it very big. This helped a lot.
> you cannot short Bitcoin for hundreds of millions, it's not liquid enough

That seems like a great explanation, but the paper's argument is definitely not that cryptocurrencies can't exist or can't work, just that they have a limited range of levels of adoption where the incentives will continue to point in the right direction. In the paper's model it seems that Bitcoin has just not reached that level, right? If you could double-spend or short enough value in it, the incentives would reverse.

> PoS where attacks are potentially way more expensive

I don't think Eric Budish agrees that PoS verification is categorically immune to this. The very last sentence of the paper mentions that it "will be interesting to watch [PoS] research develop, and see whether or not it constitutes a valid response to the critique in this paper".
Can you point us to where the existing extractors are implemented in the codebase?
If there is a geothermal source of energy in a location that is impossible to transmit electricity from, and you use it to mine bitcoin, is this immoral and a “waste” of energy? This literally happens in Iceland.
"The loot llamas are available to buy in the Save The World game mode. The more popular Battle Royale mode does not have loot boxes for sale."

So those are irrelevant anyway?
Losing share faster rather than at the same rate is evidence that there are independent factors involved, which means that it isn't a valid control group.
Have a look at https://github.com/cztomsik/graffiti.
Or if you plug the Apple power adapter into a power strip with a circuit breaker.
Thanks for pointing that bit out. It would still be useful to see where those other points lie. It seems counter-intuitive that they would need a higher bitrate for 1080p than 1440p when both are encoded to the same quality. Maybe their quality metric is slightly biased in favor of having more pixels and is more concerned with accurate reproduction of high-frequency components of the image than having an artifact-free low noise reproduction at a lower resolution?

Edit: Looking at their animated GIF comparisons, the newer encodes definitely give a much sharper image, but also have a lot more in the way of ugly artifacts:

On the left, under the tree branch: https://miro.medium.com/max/2000/1*SQQkYltbVC-HT-l8GpN-7Q.gi...

The right side of the frame: https://miro.medium.com/max/2000/1*A37BBzK4Ap8JPhmiUiFKcw.gi...

Many of the areas that should be fairly flat looking: https://miro.medium.com/max/2000/1*qI3EY7HDp3p0gwK9YGqchQ.gi...

There's definitely a lot more ringing and similar artifacts in the newer, lower-bitrate samples despite their overall increase in effective resolution.
Ouch.
I found PLA to have less flex. PETG has a lot more flex.

Also, what is the point of a solar tracker? We can all tell where the sun is...
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In a lot of cases the decode is happening on the GPU anyway, so requiring a specific CPU is doubly pointless.

I figured it was some backdoor Intel scheme where they paid Netflix to be exclusive.
First, these statistics are for phones shipped, not current active users of said phones. It's well known that iPhone users tend to hold on to their phone for longer before upgrading compared to Android users, who often switch phones much earlier. You need to look at operating-system market share based on active users(e.g. web tracking), not "who upgraded their phone this quarter". In that regard, Apple has over 56% market share in the US and over 24% market share globally [1].

Secondly, the fallacy here is that people, like yourself, keep conflating the smartphone manufacturing or operating system markets with the individual software markets that developed around each platform. Mac software doesn't "compete" with Windows software because people tend to have one device or the other. That software is what makes the platforms themselves competitive between each other, yes, but the actual software industry that's dependent on them is not competitive across those platforms. They are competing with apps within their particular platform, including the purveyors they have to go through (e.g. Apple and Google). You wouldn't say that the Bear notes app on iOS is competing with the Scarlet Notes app on Android because they're in different markets. Instead, Bear is competing with Apple Notes. Even if we are to go by your 14%, that's 14% of 3.5 billion people. IMO, that's such a large amount that it should be considered it's own market, but that has to be determined by a court.

No one is arguing "monopoly" of mobile smartphones here. They're arguing a monopoly specifically of iOS software distribution. The Microsoft case wasn't in relation to other web browser developers, but of other operating systems and of manufacturers because they leveraged their market share to illegally maintain their monopoly in that regard. Their monopoly was their monopoly of the Windows operating system, not the Internet Explorer web browser. What's being argued here is that Apple is leveraging their power, or distribution monopoly, over the entire iOS software market, not "smartphone" software in general, to gatekeep competition of software and software distribution while also profiting from that gatekeeping.

This is going to come down to how a court interprets this because antitrust isn't as cut and dry as other areas of law, especially now that individual markets are not so easily distinguishable in the current tech world.

[1]: https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile
That 30% is a cost to Epic and that cost has to be paid by someone.

Just like any other cost, more often than not these costs are just passed on to the customer.
Quantum computer research might be super-grandmaster

https://www.qats.com/cms/2019/08/02/quantum-computing-coolin...
I'm not so sure about that. Downvotes are as much an indicator of outspokenness as they are that one's post is repugnant. Unfortunately lots of people love to downvote posts they do not agree with, or don't support their chosen side
It prevents JIT compilation for Javascript code.

You can create browser engines without this feature.
This is a preposterous claim that requires a lot of revision to be even close to true. Marketplace owners have been using their own games' exclusivity to push their platforms since Steam's introduction. Even just talking about third-party exclusives (which IMO is an arbitrary distinction — they're just as exclusive and for the same reasons), Valve paid for third-party exclusives early in Steam's history. Once they got rich enough, they started just buying companies outright when they wanted exclusivity on a game somebody was making, which is a much stronger exclusivity deal than the relatively tepid "the game comes out a few months earlier on our store" deals Epic is best known for.
What’s so wonderful about voluntary society is that you can avoid the whole and others can dive right in! Different strokes for different folks.
Someone with an iPhone uses Signal to communicate with someone with an Android phone but they still have to use iMessage for SMS with others.

How is this any different from people having to use WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, SMS etc?

Then they accidentally send a message to the other person using iMessage instead of Signal and it goes out unencrypted.

So the same people who are smart enough to know the risks involved in letting a third party intercept your text message aren’t smart enough to choose the right app?
Its not that they do it in all cases. Neither did Microsoft.

Here's an article that goes over some of it (although it oversells Apple's first party advantage I think)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/05/how-app...

Apple also has a no Copy-Cats guideline that has been used to push out some apps, although maybe its not wide spread enough to be a concern.
It must be fun to work in a team of those assorted specialists
It's interesting to compare this table of contents with the TOC by Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup which was updated in January 2020.

"A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography" https://toc.cryptobook.us/

Like this one, their book can be downloaded too.

It's often good to have different POV when learning cryptography. These seem to complement each other nicely, with Boneh and Shoup being more advanced, and more complete in many areas.
Tort reform is a travesty, for sure, but I'm not sure it's a relevant point to make here.
Eastern/Western Washington State University is listed...

https://cougarhealth.wsu.edu/studentinsurance/insurance-cove...

https://inside.ewu.edu/bewell/optional-medical-insurance/

This spreadsheet is inaccurate, at best.
Also, what kind of insurance matters. I can get you 50$ a month insurance that wont cover anything. Without context, this spreadsheet is a big list of rumours for you go look up and be disappointed.
You never heard complaints about physical store exclusive DLC? It was a big topic for a year or two before Gamestop decided they weren't getting their ROI and it became less common again.
> Unfortunately, supporting a brand as team sports is a thing like supporting a political party as team sports is.

My take is the exact opposite: this episode is an opportunity to air grievances regarding each company, which by themselves have amassed a bunch of reasons for customers and end users to dislike them. There are no good guys in this story, only bad guys whose evilness outstages the other's evilness.
I'm going to tag the news media industry as the major problem. If a politician (of any stripe) says (the mature and reasonable thing...): "I'm going to compromise with the opposition, we're going to give them X, try Y, gather evidence and if it doesn't work out we'll reverse the decision" then:

1) All the media is going to report is "[Politician] is caving in to the opposition".

2) The media will report misleading stats and not bother trying to actually understand the evidence gathered.

3) Nobody will point out or honour the part of the deal that involved an unroll if it didn't work.

Can't negotiate, can't compromise, can't improve. Fools errand to try with the press waiting in the wings. They might even be purposefully hiring ignorant people because they are more entertaining.
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I've been playing the website / SEO game for about 13 years now. I peaked in 2013 when I could race any new content to the top of google in less than a day.

But first, have you ever heard the humorous story that goes something like this?... (condensed)...

A business man visits a 3rd world native fisherman while on vacation at some exotic place. The native fisherman is fishing in the story, being interrupted by the biz man.

He gives the native advice on how to scale up his operation, which goes about 3 or 4 levels deep, where its obvious the native will do nothing but work heavy ambitions for the entire prime of his life.

The native asks leading questions, like a child... "and then what do I do? ...and then what do I do?"

And the story ends where as a reward to a life well planned and lived the native can go fishing every day in some exotic place and enjoy his leisure time.

I've found a similar humorous outcome in web design.

I've learned several languages for the web, practically worshipped the god of SEO, and structured my pages in such a way that almost every service could properly represent the content on my page (ie, microdata, structured data)

... and after all of this ... I finally realized the obvious...

How did I ever miss this very very basic truth: Some of the most popular content on the web doesn't give a #### about any of this.

Beyond that, webcrawlers and search engine algos probably don't care that much either. (and yes, I say this as an experienced web dev)

So now I'm back where I started 13 years ago: Fishing in my native village by means of websites that are built on simple HTML, lightweight, and completely abandoning the higher theories previously mentioned.

Has anyone else taken this path? I'd love to know how its gone for you.
"Apple in turn has taken to featuring Fortnite competitor PUBG in its App Store "

Gangsta.
It should be obvious to anyone paying attention during the early days of the pandemic that supply is not unlimited in the short run. Many supply chains are optimized for efficiency assuming that demand will follow projections. If consumers change behavior all at once, it causes immediate shortages.

Imports aren't magic. You will at least have to wait for cargo ships to cross the ocean (unless air freight makes sense). For mask manufacturing there were lots of other bottlenecks.

Of course in the longer run (months or years), things are different, but it still takes time to ramp up, and how long it will take isn't something you can answer in the abstract, using armchair reasoning.
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Apples rules are arbitrary and protect nobody, probably don't even Apple itself.
> Hostess famously failed due to the Bakers Union stalling wage talks

Except that Hostess had a bunch of debt loaded up from financial "engineering", and Hostess had already asked for and been granted concessions several times.

At some point, you're better off forcing the company into bankruptcy and rolling the dice--especially if the owners are bleeding it of cash via financial arrangements. It's going to be dead anyway; the only question is whether the owners also get to bleed the retirement fund, for example.

If Hostess can't employ those people after bankruptcy and reorganization, then those jobs were certainly dead, anyway.
Are any of the exclusives permanent? Because consumers can wait of they really can't stand a second launcher.

I'd say the choice of launchers and stores is fine. Especially with tools like GOG Galaxy which can aggregate them too.

Would consumers prefer paying 30% more for games to stay on the most dominate launcher/store?
Have a look at NetSurf or litehtml (https://github.com/litehtml/litehtml)
Switching my $10/month payment from Spotify to iTunes is negligible compared to replacing a $700+ smartphone (which is likely on a payment plan). And in the latter case I lose access to every single app I have paid for over a decade.
There are apps on the Play Store which will put ads right on your lock screen…
I enjoyed this joke from the stream:

> If you bombard earth with photons long enough, it will emit a Tesla
No but having an SMS API allows dodgy apps to signup kids for premium content. When dealing with security issues you don't just imagine the perfect case scenario.

And you use Chrome, Signal and WhatApp on iPhones. Not sure what you are talking about here.
Uh... who cares? How many power plants keep houses cool when you can just sit in the shade and meditate? If the market pays the fee then that’s the reality whether you like it or not. I find the fact you use a computer at all mildly distasteful given the energy required to power it.
Does this mean The Netherlands and Germany are not single-payer?
I'm assuming that when you're at as large of a scale as Netflix, if you were to provide bitrates like Apple does, it would probably collapse most of the internet backbone. I think Netflix and Youtube already use something like half of the internet's bandwidth. Now imagine if they just tripled that overnight.

Though I guess there's a difference between allowing the user to switch to it vs making it default. Youtube lowered the default to 480 to help with congestion during the pandemic, but you can still manually still. I assume 99% of users use the default which is why they can get away with it.

But it would be kinda silly for Netflix to provide 48mbps but only to those who know to enable it.
For what it's worth, I wasn't going to respond, but the more I read back this reply, the more it chafes—maybe because I've bristled about similar replies in the past and I've tried many times to write a blog post about what I see happening here. It reminds me of a different but commonplace phenomenon that has led to the case where I no longer bother filing bugs against projects who host their bugtracker on GitHub because of the high-ish likelihood that it will get a reply in the form of a comment responding solely to an imagined subtext in my message—where the subtext is that my bug report is actually a support request. I attribute this to the bugtrackers in many projects being run so poorly that folks are even allowed to file support requests there (which is frustratingly common on GitHub) and that maybe because the reply originates from someone who lives in a world where all communication happens through subtext.

So intentional snarkiness or not, there's something in your comment that just doesn't comport with mine and the message in it. If I were directly addressing the author of this tool and, say, asking that it be changed or repackaged to solve some problem for me, then your reply would be on-target. But I'm not even using this extension, and that's not what my comment was. It was not a support request. Besides what I wrote, there was no subtext to be found, but if a person insisted on trying to root out some latent meaning from the words, then let it have been an observation about current approaches to modularity or the principle of least authority or the principle of least power.

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Yes, that would be possible. However, it is difficult to get multiple parties to cooperate and coordinate on an expensive for a long time. It requires a high degree of trust, or some form of legal instrument. Trust isn't very much around these days, maybe some clever legal instrument could have done it?
The fact Elon talks about the universe stared as leptons and not hydrogen as many pop sci shows do is a good example of his whole game plan.

Understand things at their lowest level and build.

Disrupt at the lowest level you can.
It seemed like they were making a somewhat good point and then it just degraded into inside-memes at the end. Someone heard "squad goals" and ran with it.
hmm, maybe you are referring to money as currency, where i am referring to it as assets (tokens)

anyway, yes there is money locked in the lending platforms. most of it is used as collateral, which is locked when borrowed against. the reserve ratios are high (60-80%), so unlike a regular bank, no money is "printed" when lent.

"real money" does enter these systems. people spend resources to acquire real money which is subsequently traded then locked into these platforms. also, while a lot of ethereum tokens are simply minted with no real backing, some are mined (even erc20), which again people dedicate finite resources to
This is equally unpopular when it's happening to Rocket League.

At the same time, nobody really cared about Nintendo making Bayonetta 2.

I think the problem is with taking away something that was already available or announced to be coming, and people have less problems with funding new things with strings attached.
Is the measure of speed the one you’ll get from running a lighthouse report in Chrome or is it referring to some other speed ranking metric they planning to use?

In other words, how do you measure your page to see if it counts as a “fast page”?
Apple holds the majority of the US market to developers' heads to develop for iOS.