skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> * the fact that 20% of the block reward is given to the founders as a "fee". i.e. 6 people will end up with 20% of a "global currency".

This applied to the first 4 years of issuance, so it's actually only 10% of the total supply, and it went to not just founders but also advisors, investors, etc, and some was donated to the Zcash foundation, so the portion that was personal profit for 6 people was much smaller! The bulk went into... paying salaries for quite a lot of developers. Since then another dev reward was agreed on (for the next 4 years), but this is going directly to the company+foundation directly building Zcash with no "founder share".

TLDR: the share of the Zcash supply of which "6 people" are receiving through in-protocol issuance is much smaller than 20%.

> * the fact that it's a "privacy focused" crypto-currency and the CEO said "we can make it private, but not for criminals" i.e. backdoored. (https://twitter.com/zooko/status/863202798883577856?s=20)

Zooko did NOT mean backdoors; he meant things like KYC at exchanges and giving people the ability to voluntarily give "viewing keys" to law enforcement that prove which transactions they actually send/received.

See some follow up tweets:

https://twitter.com/zooko/status/863516385426755585
https://twitter.com/zooko/status/864342017605750784

> * the fact it's a crypto-currency with a CEO.

Fair point! Zcash governance is definitely more centralized in that way (though there is a lot of community engagement, as we saw in the [dev fund extension](https://electriccoin.co/reaching-consensus/)). We'll see how it evolves.

> * the fact that the ZK-SNARKs they use (however mathematically beautiful), requires a trusted setup, i.e. prover key(non I/O)

Also a valid point, though this is a big part of why they have been working on Halo, a ZK scheme which does not require trusted setups and still has the benefits of succinct proofs etc.

> * the fact the SNARKS are computationally expensive and no-one uses them. Thus opt in privacy and reduced anonymity set.

These days you only need a few seconds to make a SNARK, even on a phone! But the "opt in privacy" thing is definitely a fair point; I hope that they can escape their bitcoin roots somewhat and get rid of transparent addresses and Script and that whole mess entirely at some point, but we'll see.
servicing at the top of the street lamp would me so much easier, right?
It doesn't seem those take the game output into account, maybe I missed something but they just seems to be controllers with scripting capabilities.

The idea of a decoupled cheat would be to acquire the game state from outside the computer running it, either by filming the screen or taping into the video output or the network input, then analyze it and run some aimbot (or any other kind of cheat) on it and finally send the cheat commands as if it came from a legitimate controller, through usb.
I've been having similar issues matching this as well (SF south bay), with ATT Uverse (fiber to neighborhood, 100mbit to home).

I really wish we'd just have municipal ISPs here. I'm only a few miles from Google HQ, but the internet options are crap.
From what I've seen in Canada units that can only pump heat from inside to outside are sold as "air conditioners", units that can also pump heat from outside to inside are sold as "heat pumps".
Sorry to harp on you there, you never know if you're talking to GPT-3 on these things.

The most plausible explanation is that the person who “recorded his conversations” also took “creative liberty” with his conversations. IMO, the story is too airtight to be a result of senility. It seems like, in order of probability, 1) the work of a really good sci-fi author 2) a really good elaborate prank 3) really sharp 87 year old having a good laugh 4) senile 87 year old 5) the truth. Even though #5 is low, expected value of the story is very high. As far as I know, never in history has the former head of one of the top space agencies come forward and said "yes, aliens are real and we are communicating with them".
I work in AAA studios and I worked on online anti cheat, you won't be able to sell your anti cheat if you advertise it as working on Linux, studios don't want there game running on Linux / virtualization because of cheating.
Just need to save enough for a house. Where did you move to? Did you like it there?
I guess it still works out for them. They also rent their parking space to someone else. And he rides a bike, etc. And they use public transit. But, yeah, it's dependent on having a number of car options also available.
I find it amusing that all these multi hundred thousand dollar per year income people working at the forefront of consumer tech don’t have access to a quality symmetric fiber internet connection.
I was about to scroll past this submission when I had a sudden attack of superstition that, if I don't read it, I will eventually find myself on a sinking ship in the middle of the ocean and curse myself for not reading the damn HN article.
I think the main advantage of Tailwind is actually the fact it's a preset design system, rather than it being utility first.

If you defined a design system upfront you could do practically the same thing that Tailwind does except at a component level. On the flip side, it seems like even in Tailwind it seems like there are opportunities to create a mess.

I'm not a fan of the utility level of abstraction Tailwind is at, but I see the value. It seems wrong to view Tailwind as a CSS solution though, since in my opinion it's actually a design system solution.
We've banned this account for political and nationalistic flamewar and personal attacks.

We've asked you many times not to do this and have had to ban you many times. If it happens again, we will ban your main account as well.

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Come on. They're not arguing that "reality is wrong". Some teams have developed a stronger communication culture as a result of WFH and are better off for it. Other teams have not. It depends on the people and what you work on. Distributed work has improved the productivity of my team. I recognize that is not a universal reality. I believe you can recognize that as well.
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Yeah, I agree on the margin point.

I started my service on Twilio with the idea that the apps didn't go far enough and were too inflexible.

My plans were $9 and $29 but even then, my margins were 10 - 20% which is just absurd for a pretty high-touch + risky product. Near the end, I was wanting to pivot from utility to 'replace your current phone service' and providing data makes it incredibly expensive when compared to other providers due to not having the volume to get reduced pricing.

If I had to do it right, I would get VC and become an MVNO and position it as a 21st-century phone company ("Why can't I text on my computer?", "why can't I have multiple numbers", etc).
What layer of the stack do we think this is happening at? I seem to recall that GPON has forward error correction, so the same bit flipping in every packet seems unlikely to be caused there. But, I suppose that core routers are complicated enough these days to cause problems like this (custom ASICs doing all the bit moving), and if it affects every customer without common pieces of network equipment in between, it sure sounds like a software problem. More programs, more problems!
>Is there that much of a difference between owning a car...? I'd get rid of my car too if I could afford to have Uber haul me everywhere.

With reference to my sibling comment, definitively yes. I personally spent less on a handful of Lyft rides per month in Houston than I did on insurance alone when I owned a car. Never mind the cost of the vehicle itself, gas, any repairs...

Even adding in the cost of my rail and bus rides, still doesn't come close to the cost of a vehicle.
> Where'd you come up with this logic?

Maybe because gambling companies whole purpose in life is to rip people off, so it's fair play to do that back to them? :)
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>not to mention requiring kernel-level access, which is utterly ridiculous

Not a troll question: how do you detect cheats run at the kernel level without kernel-level access?

If you answer is "I don't want a game to have kernel level-access even if it means some cheats can't be detected", I respect that, but can you accept that others can make a different decision and not be "utterly ridiculous"?
Naw man, woodgrain stickers.
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And use home delivery! You outsourced the car dependency to poor gig workers.
Let's dump public education!

Deschooling is done on discord
My experience with GFN has been MUCH better than I expected. I've also come across similar sentiments as yours, which leads me to think it's a proximity to the DC issue.

E.g., my RTT to my ISP's gateway, on average, fluctuates between 8-11 ms (currently ~14 according to pfSense) and a ping to google's closest response is usually about the same. I'm sure others have it better, but I am quite impressed, given a little bit of this latency would probably be eliminated by not having a virtualized router as is the case with my setup.

Twitchy MP shooters and twitchy platformers are the 2 subgenres that aren't suited for this arrangement. Most everything else is perfectly fine (under the aforementioned ideal conditions).
Then they should ban living. It can be done very unsafely.
> Couldn't we spend absurd amounts of money on fixing Earth instead?

We're already spending more than 99.99% of our money on Earth. Are you advocating for a strict 100%?
TBH though, I'm mostly not interested in "making things work" if I have more convenient options. At one point, I spent a lot of time in Houston and I absolutely needed a car--for my job if nothing else. But even living in New Orleans at that time I absolutely needed a car for my job.
As Vitalik said, most of GP's message is wrong. The trusted setup was participative, as in anyone could participate and as long as one person was honest the protocol was secure. I know people who participated, I think it's FUD to say that the trusted setup is not great if you're getting value from it (short-size proofs).

Furthermore zk-SNARKs are the best constructions out there for confidentiality, not ring signatures, as was demonstrated many times on research on Monero

tl;dr monero does not provide that much confidentiality because the anonymity set is too small. In other words, you are only hiding your transaction among multiple ones, whereas Zcash hides your transactions among all the set of accounts.
Ahh, I understand you now.

Perhaps that you do not realize that storing client IP logs is standard practice for all internet services, and indeed without special and custom engineering effort is necessary for preventing brute-force attempts and denial of service as well as other types of abuse.

Any system as vast and reliable as APNS or the App Store is logging client IPs (and is thus logging approximate client location).

The data is absolutely being stored.
If you put something out on 'The Cloud', YOU NO LONGER OWN IT.
You don't need a new number persay.

With current infrastructure, a caller can say they are any number they want because the network trusts clients to report themselves accurately.
PROTIP: The boxes are an excuse. Building infrastructure would make more people want to move there, and claiming the boxes are ugly is something you can’t disagree with.
> This whole question of resigned or fired seems like such a weird one

It's mostly the side that supports Google management that is focussed on it as the primary issue; the side backing Gebru is more focussed on the triggering event itself, the unusual (for Google AI, and apparently for the field in general, as far as internal reviews go) review process applied to the paper on which Gebru was lead author and which she was told to retract, with the resigned/fired issue as an additional indicator of Google management being deceitful, but not the primary issue.
What am I even reading. "Nothing indicates Uber is stepping away from self driving cars". Yeah right.
Many more users flagged this one. It's that simple.
Believe it or not there are even more terrifying things than that. How long until someone builds a rifle scope that can visualize Wifi RF reflection patterns in the same way a thermal scope can see infrared? The rifle scope using this technology could see right through walls. https://news.mit.edu/2018/artificial-intelligence-senses-peo...
The problem in the US is that everything is aligned against making stuff here. The unions have been in damage control mode for decades, trying to avoid losing the factories that employ two hundred to the more automated factories that employ twenty, but then as a result losing 100% rather than 90% of the jobs to China.

We impose labor and environmental rules on products made in the US but don't require the same standards for products made overseas, even though we could.

China is basically a trust that uses profits in industries it has already taken over to subsidize its entry into industries it hasn't yet, and for decades we did nothing so we could get cheaper shit, claiming that we would keep making the high tech stuff, until we turn around and every phone and computer is made in China.

There are solutions to this. Obvious solutions. But it would imply paying more for stuff because it's not being made in a polluting sweatshop in an undemocratic country which is acting like the nation state version of a 19th century robber baron. (At least initially; you know what stage two of the robber baron playbook is if we do nothing.)
Q: On what continent is the EU's largest park?

A: South America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiana_Amazonian_Park
I bike by "Go Home Tech Bro" stickers on stop signs pretty frequently in Seattle
Yeah. This is how it should work IMO. Have a trustworthy organization that confirms bugs, but doesn’t require disclosure before payment. Let researchers place a value on their own work via a “buy it now” option and let organizations negotiate to buy bugs affecting their products.

The only info shown publicly should be a severity rating. If an exploit is fixed, published, or used before a company buys it, the 3rd party could publish proof of previous knowledge about the exploit.

There are a lot of good incentives in that system. The trusted third party will want to do a high quality job of verifying and categorizing exploits because overselling them will deter companies from buying and companies would be increasing their liability when they fail to buy bugs.

For example, in this case, what’s the damage? IMO you could do millions of dollars in damage. In fact, if you went hog wild exfiltrating or destroying data, I bet the industry would value the damage over $1 billion dollars when you’re being prosecuted.

I wonder what kind of legal hurdles a company would face trying to set something like that up. I think it makes a lot more sense than having companies working on the honor system because they’ve demonstrated they don’t play fair and bugs are severely undervalued.

This is a $1 million bug IMO.
I don't know anyone that died of Covid. I wash my hands and are not walking around in Chicago.
Unfortunately you're not thinking about regulations, which Zcash has to think about every day.
> There are definitely valid reasons not to buy Chinese products: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott_Chinese_products. Also what are the other competing smartphones which are made in USA?

Made in USA is a big stretch when nearly all components are imported from abroad.

Better to say "Few screws inserted in USA"

On why you cannot really make thing outside of China:

The biggest proponents of very purposefully locking manufacturing in China are major American companies...

I heard from multiple first hand accounts if Apple trying really hard to move out of China, and putting a concerted multi-year strategy of moving suppliers to TW, and Vietnam. If they cannot move, who will?

The emphasis on the later is because there is positive precedent of any major company succeeding in moving, and that validates beancounter opinion "If multinational A doesn't move, why should we?"
A friend used one of these (the shorter models) as a coffee table -- I distinctly remember how hard it was to move the big, dense metal cube in and out of his room!
The problem with your idea is that nobody wants to play with cheaters.

Everything that makes the game fun is defeated by a single cheater.

So people are just going to choose between playing with 0 cheaters or go play a different game.
Hail the furure!
Notably absent are your left wing Maos and lenin.

Either you aren't discussing in good faith or ignorant of left wing populism.
I guess I'm old enough to only ever know this side of MSFT. I see them getting positive reviews (for various different products) here on HN. But stories like yours is what I think of when I hear the word Microsoft thrown around at work. It's a company to be avoided at all costs.
I'm on Sonic.net fiber and they're a reseller of AT&T and I've experienced this exact scenario.
But colder winter could be correlated with asthma because colder winter lead to more gas heating.
All music.

> My main point is that there is no objective comparison between thousand of pieces and when we take the choices of the elite circle and compare it to intersubjective choices of the masses there would be little to no overlapping. So my point would still be "Why is your elite opinion more worth or correct than the collective opinion of the whole world?"

Exactly. This is more or less the same in the music world as it is in the visual arts.
So if SpaceX shuts down their entire operations (and lets include all rocket companies), then that would completely fix health care and the climate crises? I'm not following the logic of how that would work.

It is basically a larger version of the argument "Well, if you are so poor, why did you drink that cup of coffee this morning?"
If you watched Valley of the Boom, the Netscape build team sections talk about the booze culture. This has persisted into SRE team culture. This is not new. I agree, no big deal.
Monero is cool, but it has fundamental flaws: its anonymity set. And ring signatures is not standard crypto at all. Less complexity than zk-SNARKs for sure, but there's a trade off in confidentiality.
Parking in SF tends to really suck, and at least if you take an Uber you don't need to circle the neighborhood for half an hour to find a spot.
I have installed Windows in a dual boot configuration with Linux. I now have a better time separating work and play, win-win!
You seem to be conflating open source and functionality. The proprietary Nvidia drivers are perfectly functional and maintain feature parity across Windows and Linux (minus HDR but that's not Nvidia's fault as HDR barely exists on Linux).

AMD drivers are open source but that alone doesn't make them "work better" than the Nvidia drivers.
I'm not sure why they even offer the USA option. It hardly adds any real value, no one will buy it and people will just whinge about it.

At least it does provide one data point on what it costs to do though.
Players have a hard time telling if someone is cheating or not. Especially in game when you're not spectating. Did they see you through a wall, or is it just good game sense? Did they use an aimbot, or is their aim that good, or they did they get lucky?
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You can set up QT to use GTK themes (seems like this is the default in KDE Plasma): https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uniform_look_for_Qt_and...

I currently just don't have any QT based apps on my Arch system though I don't think.
More details for any readers here: https://github.com/cli-guidelines/cli-guidelines/issues/57
Are they trying to kill the product as fast as possible? Because waiting for a first-party solution before kicking 99% of your users out is the perfect way to do it, short of simply deleting their accounts.

Good thing I was an earlier GitHub Actions adopter because now I don’t have to do as much work.
Much like Detroit and Cleveland, the Toledo suburbs are quite affluent even though the city itself is on hard times. Very cool to see my hometown on HN :D
This self-driving system promise keeps getting delayed! It looks to me this is a case of a donkey led by a carrot on a stick (investors are the donkey here). What I never understand is what happens when a new situation that the system did not previously train for happen? what if this situation is deadly? Will all the Uber cars decide to jump off a cliff because of a wrong signalization or bad weather? What will the Teslas decide?
Nature is very capable of creating 1 thing and multiply it, but it does not. The reason is it is more secure to have variation. If a problem happens, it will not affect every member (same what is happening with COVID by the way)
Creating a mono-brain will soon prove disastrous. You just need a previously not seen situation or a crazy guy that gets imaginative and that will induce the death of hundreds
Hard to pay your execs and engineers insanely bloated Tech salaries on Taxi profit margins. It's a bubble ready to pop.The guy saying they will profitable in the next year is delusional.
It's a local news site from Ohio. It's completely reasonable that they would refer to Toledo by name without specifying Ohio, America.
First thing I thought of was Gears of War and lambent wretches.
When I lived in SF it was socially acceptable to openly degrade tech workers. Nancy Pelosi's daughter went on TV and called SF tech workers "vermin" and "invaders" and described the presence of tech works as an "infestation". Open hostility and dehumanization is condoned. In no way did I feel oppressed, but it did come off as tone deaf the way people on one breath say stuff like that and in the next complain about how tech workers weren't invested in the community.
>Tesla does not use Lidar as a cost savings measure

I think it is less about cost saving and more about getting to the root of the problem. According to Elon's statements, Lidar is a crutch and since the AI will eventually have to be good enough to remove the crutch, remove it an the get go and save learning how to use the crutch. This is similar to his reasoning about EVs. Since we will eventually have to have petroleum free cars, Lets remove them as early as possible.
It wasn’t armored you can easily tell by the glass.
TL;DR: Liquid-fuel rockets work by combining a liquid fuel with oxygen. To get the fuel and oxygen into the combustion chamber in huge quantities, they use a big fancy pump. To power this big fancy pump, all liquid-fuel rockets burn fuel in a separate combustion chamber, using the hot gas to power the pump. After the gas powers the pump, it has to go somewhere. Most rockets just dump the gas (these are called 'Gas-generator cycle' engines). This is nice and easy (ha), but it also means that the gas isn't going through the main combustion chamber, so it isn't propelling the rocket. The rockets on Starship re-use the gas that drives the pumps, pushing them into the combustion chamber and burning any unused fuel/oxygen to propel the rocket.
Huh, thanks for that - I honestly thought that was just what you (North Americans) called blocks of flats (resp. apartments) - I had no idea it was actually more specifically/correctly a particular (presumably commonplace) ownership structure for such buildings.
Everyday Astronaut did a nice explanation of the Raptor and various simpler designs, and what's so great about full-flow staged combustion:

https://everydayastronaut.com/raptor-engine/