skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, difficulty can adjust down. But can the security of bitcoin afford the loss of that hashrate?

It really depends on how much value Bitcoin is securing at the time.

Because the amount paid out for mining rewards is also the rough cost for someone to execute a 51% attack. If miners can produce X hashes/sec for an easy profit at $Y, then an attacker should also be able to produce slightly more than X hashes/sec for about the same cost of $Y, or at least in the same order of magnitude.

So, can the attacker make more than $Y profit/day from exploiting double-spends? The security of bitcoin becomes an economic problem.

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On a related tangent, I used to track random shitcoins as a hobby.
And you might be shocked at just how many 51% attacks happened. Many of the shittest shitcoins were secured by no more than a few hundred dollars per day of hashrate. Super-easy for someone to rent that off nicehash. Some of the reorgs I saw were multiple days long, and the attacker would continue attacking the same chain until their victim noticed, or ran out of money.

I saw this done on dozens of shitcoins in the few months I was tracking. Based on that experience, I wouldn't trust any PoW blockchain that didn't have the majority of hardware miners for a given algorithm.

So I would not trust BCH... how long before some medium sized bitcoin miner decided they could get more profit by 51%ing BCH for $175k/day?

You can assume bitcoin is somewhat safe right now, but only because most of the SHA256 miners are already mining bitcoin. It would take a massive upfront investment for someone to create enough SHA256 miners to execute a 51% attack.

But in your suggested scenario where the hashrate of BTC is dropping? Where are those older SHA256 miners going? The second hand market? What if someone buys them all up?

And what if Bitcoin becomes actually successful? Becomes the backbone of the world economy and doing trillions per day in transactions? Someone might decide that upfront cost of creating miners is worth it, especially if they only need $657k of hashrate.
Naming things is one of the two hardest parts of programming. If AI is this good at naming then I’ll be out of a job soon.
Since it is coming from Adept, maybe they are building 8B models for UI automation, the inputs are usually large and latency required is low. It's basically a task of information extraction and UI action generation.
We need more progress on this. I don't see enough homeless people getting high on the streets of SF. Priorities.
Looking at all the tranq zombies in CA, I strongly disagree with that last statement no matter the drug. Unfortunately, I'll have to concede that jail is likely not the right place either. I think we can all agree that those people need hope and something to live for long-term. Drugs have proven not to be that solution to everyone except those in their bondage. In that sense, I fail to see how decriminalization of possession is going to send anything but wrong signals. Kids don't do drugs, just keep them in your pockets. How's that sound if it was your kid?
SDI is not really comparable. The numbers for the orbital parameters did not add up at the time, but they had Edward Teller behind them.
I have no doubt that it's useful. My point is it enables abuse towards us and that the potential for abuse overrides the utility.

Road to hell is paved with good intentions. When you propose a law, you must also think about the numberless ways it could be abused and misused to cause harm. Same principle applies here. The code shouldn't just fail, it should fail in ways that prevent the developer from even knowing it failed much less why. Simply because that would leak information.
Absolutely.

According to [1], in Japan, 4.5M people play Mahjong (in Japan you can assume Mahjong means Riichi Mahjong), 5M people play Shogi, and only 1.5M play Go.

Interestingly 21M (!) people play family games, which means party video games, e.g. Mario Kart.

[1]: https://note.com/hasimo1000year/n/n06989a252aa2, it's a random Mahjong player's blog, but it quotes the data allegedly from [2]

[2]: https://www.jpc-net.jp/research/list/leisure.html
Does Google do the scummy thing where these toggles get reset to default after an update?
I think you failed to realize that 肉 just means "meat", in the most general sense possible. Under no circumstance is the character by itself ever directly denotes pork. So there's really nothing odd about saying "chicken meat" or "cow meat" when you want to specifically specify the flesh of the animal for consumption.
Ex-FTX Executive Ryan Salame Will Forfeit $1.5B as Part of Guilty Plea
Why not the other way around? LLM interfaced with a controller which recognizes commands in text stream and can insert data.

If it's too dark call 'HAL.lights_on' with the current room as a parameter.

"Tell me how old Napoleon would be today." "Today Napoleon, assuming he is alive, would be calc(today - data.Napoleon.birthdate).year"
There's an abundance of chill public spaces in Tokyo! So many cool parks, public rooftop spaces, and so on. I think it's just cause chess isn't popular.
Yeah I have a bunch of these using pretty-printed JSON - here's one that scrapes Hacker News for mentions of my site, for example: https://github.com/simonw/scrape-hacker-news-by-domain/blob/...
It’s hard to get specific examples, but I was happier with the results back when I tried it in beta (after several years of using DDG exclusively and only very rarely needing the !g escape). It’s not always (pure default, things change with personalization like lowering/blocking/raising/pinning) a giant difference, but simply the result you want being further up, and fewer useless filler results between hits.
You can take a risk and make a bad movie. Just don't cry politics when people hate it because it sucks.
I still have a Lack side table (the only Ikea name that makes sense in English too) and a 1-2 bottom-tier cheapest chairs that are at least 10 years old and maybe more... or e.g. Malm bed of similar age (I think that is the cheapest beds they have), we don't use it anymore cause we wanted to have a padded headboard. They are all totally fine and I've moved with them a few times.
To be fair, Paddington 2 was pretty amazing :)
Do you live in california? Go outside and open your eyes for evidence.
I wonder why plumbing fixture gaskets are so often made of natural rubber or other apparently utterly crappy rubber. They tend to degrade quite badly and often fail if they are disturbed if they’re not brand new.

EPDM is slightly more expensive in bulk than natural rubber and would (I expect) last a lot longer. Yet even an EPDM garden hose washer seems to be rare.
They were originally, from the article, this is a narrower version that removed ibogaine, LSD, MDMA. Which is silly, because LSD is comparable to mushrooms and MDMA is a powerfully therapeutic substance.
Related: you can write a Node.js module in Nim with Denim: https://github.com/openpeeps/denim
Don't Germanic languages such as English generally use "F" instead of "P" for fathers?
Mushrooms and opiates have absolutely nothing in common.
Agreed, as a californian we have our priorities straight.
English also has "Android"
You're right, I explicitly went out of my way to find movies that are widely considered to be classics, but were not loved by critics. It's not an "analysis" of any kind, as I made clear in my post.

I think the critics are wrong about Joker. The fact that it's an homage to Taxi Driver and King of Comedy is completely intentional, to the point of casting Robert De Niro as the talk show host. I don't consider that a detraction from the film at all. Many critics also interpreted it as some kind of political document, which is totally off the mark. One of the big problems with criticism in the 21st century is that people have lost the ability to tell the difference between portraying something and endorsing it.
Nuanced issues... how do they work?
it gets way more complicated, unfortunately. check out this chart: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Hindi/Family_relations
Yeah, the show was incredibly good. A TV sequel to the comic is something I’d have bet money couldn’t be good—I’d have been skeptical of any sequel to it, really, but TV?—but damn is it perfect. It’s canon alongside the comic, to me. Right up there with it.
> Rather, the luxury automaker wanted to streamline production and reduce costs there by physically installing heated seats in every single car, since 90% of all BMWs are bought with seat heaters anyway.

They could’ve just taken a page from Audi’s playbook and made heated seats standard. No subscription bs.
Also the man behind the 68 DNC beatdowns
Or they may pull out of the EU area temporarily.
What are you on about?

California's gun laws makes it the 3rd-lowest state in gun deaths per capita

[0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/gun-deaths-...
Polish has mama and tata. Papa is only a loanword and less often used than papa as goodbye.
Yes, it is. That's why we don't know what things like the ISS are actually worth.
> Modern adtech can track users regardless if cookies are enabled or not, and whether they enable this new Chrome feature or not, via browser fingerprinting. They've been doing this for years.

One of the explicit goal of "privacy sandbox" is preventing browser fingerprinting by limiting informational entropy from user environment. https://github.com/mikewest/privacy-budget
India WeWork offices are a delight. Not as packed, but gets pretty good footfall. And about 70% of the year, the rent-a-seat space is packed in a whole bunch of them. In fact, I won't be surprised if the India-side of operations is doing really well; owing to their partnership with a local operator. Some large companies (1000+) also avail WeWork's services here.
There's a program on NPR called "How I Built This". Every single episode I've listened to admits that luck had a huge part. Sure, they had to be persistent, but there's no denying luck played a big role.

https://www.npr.org/series/490248027/how-i-built-this
Discover vulnerabilities across a codebase with semantic code analysis engine
Disagree that that is OK.

A good democracy will have access for whoever requests it to validate and learn about their peers more, not forced behind a paywall. Hopefully by enabling my ethos, it marginally feeds towards culturally maintaining that my country doesn't have a Ministry of Truth and other forms of democratic deficits.
The constitution makes this a bit sticky. It specifically says contracts with the government can not just be ended whenever the government wants and that nationalizing assets requires the government pay the owner fair market value. You can always go full Andrew Jackson and just ignore the courts I guess but that's a tough road.
Blink and you missed the interesting bit, which is how they hooked them together. Looks like it's with this project: https://napi.rs/

That project seems to be creating platform-specific DLL's, which I guess doesn't matter too much if it's wrapped up nicely in an npm package and you're deploying Docker files on Linux anyway? But conceptually, it seems like it would be more portable to generate a single WebAssembly binary instead of a bunch of DLL's.

Alternatively, writing very C-like code using a Uint8Array and not allocating in the loop might have fixed it too? But if you don't use JavaScript string libraries, it's not much like writing JavaScript anymore.
Having a customer that is always willing to buy energy but can zero out their consumption within seconds of a single phone call is a great asset to grid operators. Outside of Bitcoin the only customers in this class are industrial operations and they usually cannot fully turn off as well as require hours of lead time to halt operations (if they're at a stage of process where that is possible).

Please balance the reflexive crypto hate with an appreciation of the logistical challenges of grid management especially when electrical supply and consumer demand don't naturally match out.
> something we're working on improving every day!

Great to hear that! There is hope to frontend obesity crisis. What actions have you done to slip down the login page to 6MB? How large was it in the beginning? What is the bulk of that file? I mean React framework would span only 0.1% of that room.
We’re talking about Bitcoin which is not “crypto” as you probably already know.

This is a contract where Bitcoin miner uses energy that would be wasted otherwise. [1]

I see a lot of bad faith here on understanding why Ercot did that. But if you prefer state laws that “makes you safe”, go ahead.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/04/bitcoin-miners-say-theyre-fi...
Playing advocatus deii for Julia, I guess you could write code, where all function signatures only contain concrete types. Then the ahead-of-time compiler would work the same as for a C++ program without templates and dynamic polymorphism through subtyping. That's a totally valid programming model, that noone uses.
Of course you don't have to go that far in practice and you still could have static types with less restrictions, as long as the types are inferable
If it’s not apple it’s probably something else.
Read up on the Power Nine sometime. They mostly look innocent but would lead to first turn win decks.
can one actually disable iMessage on their iPhones? At this point I only use WhatsApp, I couldn't care less about super SMS.

EDIT: found it. For anyone who's interested:

> Turn off iMessage:

> On your iPhone, go to Settings.

> Tap Messages.

> Set iMessage to Off.
No, no. Police don't police police, police police police police.
Let’s not forget the bubble we’re in here. Google are aiming for Jane and Joe Muggle who click on that icon to get the internet. Google have done a really effective marketing job there, Chrome in that sense is almost like a virus in the way it has propagated for no other good reason.
Loved the concept OP. Thanks for building this. It will save me quite some time and data dump scrolling through the best of HN. I can now easily glance over the summaries and figure out which article is worth a read or just get the jist of it by the summary.

Bookmarked and looking forward to using it.
BP’s middling MCU. Coulda been a contender for very best, but they played it too safe. We shoulda followed killmonger for a while and not seen Wakanda at all until well into the film. That’d be harder to pull off, but it coulda been a good movie period, not just good for Marvel. As it is, it whiffs at what it’s going for because it doesn’t commit.

One of the worse end fights of a marvel film, too, which is saying something, and really matters since that’s like 30 damn minutes of the film.

Lots of good elements and performances. Middling MCU film overall.
Question.

Back in the dark ages, a "zero day exploit" was a piece of malware which would lay in wait, doing nothing, counting down the days, until it hit day zero, and then it would trigger and do naughty things. Some folks also referred to this as a time bomb, but that was a less `|33+ term for it. We used to see a lot of these available on sites such as asta... never mind.

Fast forward to the era of "cyber" being hugely popular, and the massive flood of people doing short Kali or "Ethical Hacking" courses and getting into IT security jobs, and I see various formal IT security publications describing a zero day exploit as "ANYTHING which is known and not yet patched". To me, there is absolutely nothing about that description which relates to the "zero" or the "day" or the "zero day". I suspect this new terminology is the result of that influx of people with no background in either computer science or hacking, latching on to a cool sounding term and misunderstanding it completely.

What is your take on this? Do you go with the ye olde terminology, or the currently accepted terminology in fancy publications? Do you believe the meaning changed, and if so, when and how and why?
An open, democratic web doesn't discriminate against me just because I want to use a Python script instead of a browser.
I mean this guy unilaterally moved the whole repo off of typescript in the span of 3 hours because of some personal opinions he had. If anyone is acting like a child, it's dhh himself.
I think the US got it right on tobacco. You can still purchase tobacco if you really want to, but we have gotten consumption down to a much more manageable level than most other rich countries, and without any sort of particular egregious rights violations.

The key point, is that at no point when I was being educated about tobacco did I feel like I was being lied to and I had to check it out for myself, which is very different from how marijuana is treated in health education in the US. Reefer madness and whatnot.
I gave you two examples of past poor performance and you either blithely ignored them or dismissed them as unimportant because it's "totally outside what you do". Then at the end you admitted you don't pay attention to the details. So we're either back to why are debating things you don't understand or why are you fawning.

The thing that always gets me in these pissing contests is some random decides to wade in based purely on ____ and then when I point out ____ I'm the asshole. Like isn't it clear you just shouldn't have started making claims? Why am I in the wrong for knowing/understanding and demonstrating that understanding but you're not in the wrong for just guessing?
Yes, it was.

https://medium.com/@seanwilliams85/weworks-kindergarten-is-a...
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/62052c52e90e0...

Whether you're convinced or not, this is the reality. Antitrust regulatories have done their homeworks and made it clear that Google alone cannot deprecate 3p cookie.
> built for how war works in the 2020s

So it's a pilotless drone?
It's a tradeoff. Do you want messages from strangers to run through a bunch of parsers that historically had problems, or do you want to take advantage of your peer group using iMessage.

I'm outside the US, so I don't even need to consider. Nobody here uses iMessage, even the people with iPhones.
used to link to drudge report before he sold it
This is actually completely reasonable and a positive for the energy grid. Large industrial energy users who can switch off when needed make the grid stronger, not weaker.

To illustrate, imagine a grid with 1000MW max demand and 2000MW of production. Let's say the generation is composed of equal parts solar, wind, gas, and nuclear.

You've got 500MW of always on (nuclear), 500MW dispatchable (gas), and 1000MW intermittent.

When the sun is shining and the wind is blowing, where do you put all your extra energy?

Well if you add on another 500MW of bitcoin mining, you can send it there. And if you hit peak demand when you've got no renewables (or the gas/nuclear is offline) you can switch off your extra demand.

The dispatchable industrial user is helping to pay to keep the extra capacity around you only need a few days a year.
I think "Propaganda" is something that's difficult to pin down. Clearly when two parties are at odds, each one is going to say the other parties claims are propaganda. Without a doubt, US media spreads propaganda. Russia spreads propaganda. Where does the truth fit in? Usually somewhere in between.

Unless there's some omnipotent, impartial third party to do it, "propaganda" is something that's hard to police.
That's amazing – it's strange that I never noticed that. Although I can imagine that it would benefit a lot of dealmakers to lower the public attention on this issue a little.
There are many in Chicago
or you know, use Rust
I wonder how this will affect apps like Apollo, which can still run fine if you use your own API key, but wouldn't be able to publish compliantly on the App Store while giving users the capability to use their own key (since it violates Reddit TOS).

More generally, will this lead to a resurgence of "unofficial" third-party apps for popular platforms like Instagram and Snapchat? These companies rely on the App Store to be the gatekeeper that stops such apps from proliferating. But if Apple can no longer control that, then I expect we'll see more usage of them. Perhaps Meta already understands this and sees it on the horizon, which is why Threads is built for the Fediverse, where third-party clients are the expected and default mode of operation.
Are these subtopics somehow not shown in Chrome settings, or did it not find any?
Interesting, do you happen to have some quantitative results on this/additional insights/etc?

I've interpreted transformer vector similarity as 'likelihood to be followed by the same thing' which is close to word2vec's 'sum of likelihoods of all words to be replaced by the other set' (kinda), but also very different in some contexts.
Apple shares fall following reports of China iPhone ban
Embracing your response on its own terms, https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09032023/inside-clean-ene...

But that aside I don't think your response is a fair one for three reasons:

(1) because solar and wind are the least expensive source of energy the excess power is significantly solar/wind.

(2) But because they're the least reliable maximizing their use requires solutions like a large amount of sheddable load on the grid.

(3) You're imposing your own opinions on the 'right' and 'wrong' sources of power which far from universal outside of internet filter bubbles and are not supported by the law. You may not like that some parties burn fossil fuels for energy but they currently have a right to do so. I agree that good cases can be made for restricting fossil fuel use, but so long as it isn't it's unproductive to pick and choose arbitrary targets that use energy for purposes you don't care about simply because fossil fuels for energy happens to exist. It's doubly so, considering 1/2 above because responsive loads help increase the share of renewable power.
Worth noting they evolved from papa and titi.
I agree more with you than the GP, but reaching for the nuclear comparison is ineffective here. You might as well cite weaponised smallpox and the infinity gauntlet while you’re at it.
The keys in advanced protection are derived from your device passcodes, your macOS user password and a recovery key. You'll notice you have to approve from one of your devices to use iCloud web or add a new device.

The deviation function takes a while to run and depends on the secure enclave, but you still probably want to avoid 4-digit passcodes.
Knowing which key the user pressed? Provides bits of identifying information.

Knowing the user's mouse position? Provides bits of identifying information.

Knowing which subdomain the user is visiting? Provides bits of identifying information.

Reading URL query string? Provides bits of identifying information.

If this is a category, it's a quite big one!
I don't even think this would be a bad thing if negotiated properly without corruption. Honestly seems like a good solution to the political parking problem
Public Service Announcement:

Amnesty International has a program on GitHub with Citizens Lab for those keeping an eye out for additional protections

https://github.com/mvt-project/mvt

MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit) helps with conducting forensics of mobile devices in order to find signs of a potential compromise.
How about the alternative capitalist view that they don't have to spend as much time on QA in lockdown mode? Seems like one of those things that could cause all kinds of unintentrd consequences across apps.
A free JSON API for every “whoa” said by Keanu Reeves in his movies