skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. The protections against this are already baked into the protocol.

51% attacks don't make sense because you're hurting yourself 51% and hurting everyone else 49%.

And for this theoretical attack you'd probably need to sustain 90%+ hash power for a long time.

Your first hurdle will be producing enough ASICs to surpass current hashrate by nearly 10x. Solve that problem and you'll need a massive amount of energy and you'll have to set up huge mining facilities in various locations to prevent crippling local power grids.

This would take years to plan & execute. A lot of people would have to be involved. Good luck keeping it a secret. Network hash rate will continue to increase while you're building this infrastructure.

If by some miracle you've pulled this off, Bitcoin users will switch to a fork of Bitcoin that uses a different mining algorithm and your entire investment is now completely worthless.
They've tried so many times to "fix" it. At this point, I think UO Outlands is probably the best UO experience you can get.
Robinhood is prefect platform for hype driven retail investors. As the article says, it's unlikely that people switch.

Robinhood’s is commission-free, has fractional trading. With lower price you have to accept lower quality and more risk, like hitting clearinghouse deposit requirements. Also, when something is free, you are the product.
Is prison to punish? Rehabilitate? Or both?

I feel like we could be way more creative in how we treat prisoners in how they “repay their debt”. Someone like Ongwen could probably be very valuable in finding and converting other people away from situations similar to his. Or from helping security forces secure against the kind of tactics they used...

I don’t know random thoughts, but we can punish someone and have value generated at the same time.
I never understood this cliché. Half a sentence is invalidated by a conjunction? We can't have two contrasting clauses in a single sentence?
We didn't take over control, rather we helped setup an independent org around webview and other related repos. At the time, the original author of webview expressed plans to work on it a lot. However, this didn't really happen. Webview is stuck with some nasty bugs and missing features, and none of the members of the Tauri team had enough C experience to fix it efficiently. Instead, we created our own pure Rust solution (https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry). We've already given it way more features than the original webview project, and it doesn't carry the bugs that plagued webview either. The next release of Tauri (about a month or so out) will use Wry, and will have features such as multi-window and fancy window styling (frameless, fullscreen, custom controls, etc...).
I'd make a wild guess that when parent is talking about 'control', they mean that if a miner is located within China, the Chinese government has the ability to put a gun to that miners head and tell them what to do.
I think there's more value in the comment you're replying to than your own comment - I imagine you took the time to downvote too? At least thank you for spending the effort of writing something.
No, I'd define the term. That's not hard to do - especially if you're willing, as the article is, to spot the reader knowledge of the difference between laity and ordination.

To be clear, I'm not OP, and I don't judge the quality of the article on this basis. It's commonplace to see a journalist do sloppy work, especially in parts of an article less critical to its thesis. But the article already defines the term 'catechist', albeit incorrectly. I don't think it's unreasonable to consider that the same trouble should go toward getting it right.
Mood disorders found to be are significantly heritable in twin studies so I don’t think one can say the “vast majority” aren’t due to a chemical issue here. It’s also worth noting that BDNF is not a neurotransmitter, and so having a direct connection with thoughts and personality seems unlikely, though there is reason to believe it may be downstream of long term psychological stresses.
Frankly, because it’s not as much of a threat as the popular narrative suggests. They may actually benefit from being able to use cryptocurrency for their own ends, either by using it directly or using the public ledger nature combined with their surveillance powers to get insight into transactions.

Regardless, the attacks described here require large concentrations of mining power. In theory, the best way to attack it would be to wait for (or even encourage/subsidize) your country to become the geographical leader in mining operations.

Or even better: Wait for companies in competing countries to start holding BTC on their balance sheets and consumers to put their investments in BTC. Now you have a kill switch for part of the balance sheets of competing countries.

I personally doubt this is happening, but I’m sure it’s being considered as an attack scenario.
How would a hyperinflation on the US dollar cause civilization to stop?

In any case, crypto trading since 2017 has been nothing but people buying and selling imaginary ticker symbols on unregulated exchanges.

For example, XVG and ETC has been subject to successful 51% attacks more than once and every time the price was hardly affected. And each time the "solution" to deep chain reorg involved the exchanges freezing all trading while developers rushed to add a hardcoded checkpoint. Once the "correct" version of history has been manually restored, everybody sing kumbaya and goes back to paying real cash for monopoly money.

Crypto need no proof of anything (PoS is still vaporware - debate me if you want), other than a shared delusion of value headed by the bucket shops.
I think this sentence is kind of BS:

> Having been the 32nd most popular name for girls born in 2015, Alexa's rank dropped to 139th in 2019, the lowest it's been since 1992.

Thanks for the link provided by adjkant below, here's the ranks per year:

2019 139

2018 90

2017 65

2016 51

2015 32

2014 63

2013 60

2012 57

2011 55

2010 50

2009 43

2008 50

2007 40

2006 39

2005 66

2004 72

2003 67

2002 69

2001 78

2000 87

I agree that ranks in 2018 and 2019 is low and on point. However 2015 is already an outlier. The sentence doesn't make much sense statistically. It's a bit like picking data points purposefully.
> I just don't want to have to worry about it at all

And in doing so you're prioritizing your needs over all of your users'. I think it's fair to claim that a minor convenience to you, at the cost of inconvenience to all your users, might be something you may want to deal with.
> that is not close to the severity of what happened over the course of this week.

Right, but I wasn't claiming that 2011 was as bad as 2021, which would be an obviously silly claim. I'm claiming that in 2011 the grid failed in a similar way to what's happening today, due to the cold, and that it was a failure of leadership to not learn from that and prepare (El Paso excepted). This is why I talked about why power failed in 2011, rather than talking about how long the outage in 2011 was or how cold it got.

Meanwhile I am saying that this claim you made is in contradiction with the official report:

> The major problems in 2011 were trees falling on power lines it wasn't core generation facilities failing.

The FERC claims that 79% of the lost energy production in 2011 was caused by either power plants failing directly due to the cold (67%), or indirectly as fuel production and transport failed due to the cold (12%). Between your unsupported assertion about falling trees, and the report produced by experts who spent six months studying the failure, I'm going to trust the latter.

Unless if you'd like to provide some evidence beyond happening to live in Texas in 2011.
What is five eyes?

I think the bounds of your knowledge are deceiving you as to the extent to which WhatsApp is used all over the world.

It is the dominant communication app in the entirety of the middle east, Africa and Asia (not including China) also.
These native platform APIs don’t use GPU much, or at all. That’s true even on Windows where GPU support is better than anywhere else. wxWidgets wraps Win32 stuff, it does not use WPF (backed by DirectX 9.0c) nor UWP (backed by Direct3D 11+, Direct2D, and DirectWrite).

Count of pixels in displays was improving way faster than RAM bandwidth or CPU performance. Currently, this does not matter much on desktops, matters somewhat on laptops, and critically important for many mobile and embedded platforms.

When you want to render anything at all at native display resolution and refresh rate, GPU stuff is the only option that works well enough.
Is there a way in Cockpit to log the actual commands run by the system to e.g. format/partition a storage device, create Virtual Networks etc?
Musk somehow got a bunch of those right. Not as complex, but still filled with unknowns.
That is only true if you know you're going to be working on something for a long time. But if you're taking the lean/fail fast approach, it isn't something you can know ahead of time.
There are a couple answers to this question, but the truth is we have ~100 years to figure this out, and the world will be a very different place then.
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> How else do you explain a shopping cart final payment button not working.

Given the megabytes of JavaScript on many websites, the chances that some of it depends on some random VM internal quirk is quite high.
Although without display support the name "Windows" feels rather odd.
Worth noting: Under Indian law, truth is not necessarily a defense to defamation.

But perhaps having being black-and-white democratically enacted rules (such as they are) is better than having opaque rules set by unelected San Francisco employees.
It has, in new cryptocurrencies. Virtually all cryptocurrencies launched since 2017 are proof-of-stake: Cardano, EOS, Stellar, Polkadot, Tezos, TRON. Ethereum is in the process of a very expensive and painful transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake.

The reason you haven't seen this in the global cryptocurrency industry is because of network effects and adoption curves. Most programmers would probably agree that C++ is archaic and that the software industry has moved on to newer languages like Rust, Go, Kotlin, ES6, etc. Why then do Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Google, etc. all rely on large quantities of C++ code? Because they were founded in the last millennia, when C++ was basically the only alternative for what they were trying to do, and have deeply enmeshed ecosystems and value chains that are all dependent on their existing C++ codebase. Throw it out and you throw out the $5T+ in value they've built. They couldn't have built that up without the 20 year head start they have, but if you're founding a tech company now, you're pretty dumb to use C++.

Similarly, Bitcoin has built a whole ecosystem of miners, speculators, traders, exchanges, payment systems, wallets, etc. Throw proof-of-work out and you throw all that out, and along with it your advantage over Ethereum, Cardano, Stellar, etc.
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What a pointless observation
This assumes you define a person as a constant irrespective of everything else. In effect an 8 year olds must therefore be judged as harshly as anyone else.

It’s a consistent standpoint, but justice isn’t about punishment. It’s a belief that the world despite all evidence to the contrary should be fair. As such people’s internal thought process is inherently part of the judgement process, the same action with different causes is judged differently.

You’re for example allowed to break some rules in an emergency therefore belief that something is an emergency is relevant. Punching someone doing a jump scare because you think their a threat is perfectly legal.
Tauri's Bundler will automatically take care of shipping the Webview2 runtime, so there won't be any extra work required of you.
Electron exists because there's a horde of developers whose only tool is a JavaScript hammer, so every problem looks like a nail. That's how you end up rewriting `dd` for Chrome[π].

π: https://www.balena.io/etcher/
> (denial of service and collapse, rendering mining hardware valueless).

No, actually. China being able to DDOS every internet service that it does not like is already something that they provably are unable to do in the current day world.

There are lots of things that China would like to DDOS off the internet, right now, and yet they aren't able to succeed at doing that.

A crypto service isn't any different than anything else that China is attempting to, and failing at, DDOSing off of the internet right now.

What is china going to do? Take out cloudfare and aws and any other major web hosting platform in the world? C'mon. Lets enter back into the real world. If the US is refusing to cooperate with china, then there are many ways of defending against something as simple as a DDOS attack.
I had some sort of viral infection must be almost three years ago now that gave me an arrhythmia. It comes and goes in severity but I’ve been on beta blockers for a couple of years now and that does seem to keep in in check.

I’ve never been able to get my fitness levels back up to where I was before though, maybe 50%. I’m also still way more tired than I ever was before. It sucks to never really have fully recovered. I feel bad for the long COVID sufferers who sound like they’re in for something similar.
Right. And now this theoretical actor that controls 10x the hashrate of the rest of the world has lost 10x the amount of capital invested compared to the rest of the mining world.

It's the equivalent of shooting a bullet through your chest to shoot your enemy in the finger.
It seems like one would lead to the other.
> I am surprised to even hear Thomasites who are one of the socio-econmic mores facing persecution in a state where BJP has no footprint.

Perhaps you are surprised because he didn't say that!
In a bench trial, the judge is supposed to weight the evidence presented, and issue various different degrees of relief based on whether it meets certain standards in totality. For a case where the plaintiff is asking the judge to overturn the result of an election, the judge would require a rather high standard of evidence.

I was talking about hard evidence specifically -- think a smoking gun with the suspect's fingerprints on it. According to what I have been lead to believe, if election fraud happened in the US, sufficient evidence of said fraud would be discovered and presented to American courts, though that is not the case in other countries.

Therefore if I have not been mislead, when a person considers whether there was election fraud in the US, they should only consider whether sufficient evidence has been presented to courts or to the media, not whether there exist other lesser forms of evidence.
Ah I see where the confusion lies. In this thread we are discussing a smartphone application that requires an internet connection - I extend those prerequisites/qualifiers to the word "planet".
> China gains no benefit from destroying Bitcoin

Right now they don't, no. But to my mind Bitcoin being subject to the whims of a major world power is a big knock against it, given that it aims to be a currency alternative. I don't want such an alternative to subject to any kind of geopolitical mood.
The protections aren't baked into the protocol because they don't account for external real world motives of nations states which could incent them to act in a "non-economic" way according to the internal rules of the Bitcoin game.
It is presumed that sometimes they don’t respond to changeset comments because they aren’t proficient in English (or the local language of whatever country they are mapping remotely).
On the other hand, I’m not sure satellites launched years ago have auto-upgrades enabled and up-to-date security policies (and certificates!), especially upgrade policies for the embedded chipsets. That must be an interesting problem to solve.
This point is what so many miss. The conceptual decomposition seems nice, but the physical implications of that decomposition are horrible. The further you split a function caller from its caller, physically, the more chaos you're asking for. It's quite simple to see from a physical perspective but from an abstract perspective it's all lines and boxes.
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> You need to cultivate tribal ties that are real, concrete, and meaningful and to some degree exclusionary

A somewhat exclusionary tribe that extends across an entire diverse country? Not likely. The only thing more tribalism will do is strengthen the existing stark tribal groups we have (which are primarily racial, religious, and class).

> In the United States, we venerate the Constitution. We have a pantheon that includes founding fathers, Neil Armstrong, MLK, etc.

As important those famous figures are, you (correctly) describe it as a pantheon, AKA the idolization of these individuals more for their surface appearance than what they represent. The amount of lip service paid to MLK in particular is astounding, especially by politicians who actively undermine his movement for racial and economic justice.

I agree that having such a pantheon is part of a national identity, but at best it is set of symbols that matter only because of an underlying broadly shared sense of economic well being.

> We have shared objects of derision, such as French “surrender monkeys.”

I think this is the example you are presenting as "exclusionary", but I'm not sure what makes it redeeming as a basis of national identity, nor is it as widely shared an object derision as you suggest.
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The best change I made was to never visit nytimes, etc. Far too addictive and designed to enrage.
This is the Turkey Fallacy.
at first it made me laugh, then it made me react like you, then I thought - actually, why is that? And it's really an incredible testament to the success of Linux. Started by a student, built originally by volunteers contributing their time. I feel like (for all its flaws) Linux is one of mankind's great achievements and its deployment on another planet underlines its success.
It's an unsolved problem, and all solutions would require a majority of the mining pool to get on board.

You could periodically increase the block size, splitting the transaction fee among more transactions. Although larger blocks make it more difficult to produce hashes, so more power would be consumed, thus increasing the transaction fees further.

You could change the block reward such that there's a larger block reward or even some kind of sustained rate of inflation. The cap of 21 million bitcoin isn't a fundamental unit, it can be changed if a majority of the mining pool decides to.

You could switch to Proof of Work, which doesn't use nearly as much electricity. Given how long this has taken Ethereum, this would probably be a multi year effort.

If the Lightning network were to take off, it might also help with this for day to day users. I'm not super confident about that though. I don't think a Layman is going to deal with the Lightning network, personally. Especially with the current narrative of bitcoin being a "store of value" rather than a currency. Bitcoin proponents don't seem to be advocating using it as a day to day payment tool.

Of course, there could also just never be any consensus on the direction to take, the network could be attacked, people could bail on bitcoin for other cryptocurrencies or just abandon cryptocurrencies all together and it could become a relic of history.
Just want to say that I really liked the blog posts. Very insightful.
I remember there was a long period where everything would bundle Chrome. One wrong checkbox and your computer would be infested. Adobe Reader was one prominent example.
Weight on board the rocket is the most important consideration as payload weigh is the limiting factor.
I don't see anything successful about it:
1) Absurd levels of electricity consumed
2) Majority of BTC is not used as an asset,or even as currency,but purely as a tool for speculation
3) the surrounding ecosystem is worse than FX world, which is already as bad as it gets
4) No real anonymity either: any meaningful amount needs to be exchanged to Fiat sooner or later.
5) Adoption is still very very low and won't change with such volatility.

Also, financial protocols!= currency.
I'm really hoping Flutter or Kotlin Desktop have a breakthrough here soon. Personally, I'm rooting for Flutter, but I'll take what I can get.
I believe circumstance should be taken into account, but not for the purposes of assigning agency, which is a fantasy concept.

It should inform the probability of recidivism, the chances that rehabilitation will work, etc, and therefore inform what type and duration of sentence/treatment is appropriate for a given case.

To your example, belief that something is an emergency means that P(recidivism) is effectively the same as if they hadn't committed the action, which is the real reason why there shouldn't be any sentence given to that individual.
Well it wasn't me saying that, though it has been said frequently. It is meaningful in normal situations, when you can spin up other sources and what you need is predictability.

Another aspect which hasn't been mentioned in terms of availability is the centralised vs distributed aspect. Big thermal plants tend to be off for extended periods for maintenance, whereas PV+wind have thousands of small units. Previously this downtime had been scheduled during winter, but with worse winter storms it might need to happen over summer. PV has been a huge benefit in meeting the AC peak in summer, avoiding the need for huge quantities of diesel backup generation.
My prediction is that Bitcoin will crash 50-80% in the next 12 months due to insider/rogue employee hack at Coinbase, and/or some other event that will render wallets irrecoverable or the company insolvent.
Moving to NYC couple of years ago I learned the best way to deal with those type of people is to let go and move on.
It really isn't worth wasting your time and energy on those people, because they will just ruin your day. Best case scenario you feel better for couple of minutes and then you forget about it. Worst case you end up dead, in jail or worse.
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> China gains no benefit from destroying Bitcoin; they can just continue to let it exist and tax all the Bitcoin miners in China, generating revenue for themselves and their citizens and continuing to be a thorn in the side of dollar hegemony

CO2 emissions is probably why I'd do it if I were the Chinese government frankly.
The phrase "too senior." There isn't much you can do about that. I just find it ironic that they claim to want so much experience and knowledge, and then draw the line at people who are old enough to have reached those lofty goals.
Out of curiosity, how many of the $800 of these chips and their software in new cars are maintainable or repairable at the corner garage? I remember having a Volkswagen years ago (the company is mentioned in the article as being affected by this), and my favourite mechanic saying I had to take it to vw because of the computer systems. VW fixed it just fine, but I didn’t like not having a choice
Better stuff to do ?
I don't know. I have one spare left — when that's gone I'm toast. I think I remember reading something about a logitech keyboard with similar key travel, but that was years ago and I don't remember the model.
It's baked into the incentivization structure, if you prefer it worded that way. Investing hundreds of billions of dollars and years of work to place a temporary speed bump in front of Bitcoin's growth doesn't make sense.
A better question to ask is: 'is the effort worth the gain?'
Yeah it seems like the real defense of an obvious attack is "This Ethereum proof of stake chain with all of the wallets from right before the attack is the new Bitcoin".