skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem for them is they have a slim margin. And there's disagreement between cutting healthcare a little bit for the moderates, or completely slashing it for the hardcore.
>in a reasonable amount of time and space, where reasonable is less than a year, and 1kb.

I think kilobit refers to the prime field of 1024 bit.
If you look at last page of the paper there is a table with the details of the cluster they used. Roughly 28 nodes with 512 GiB, 48 nodes with 64 GiB and a few bits and pieces.
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> It might help to understand that, broadly speaking, businesses in Japan that forbid tattoos are usually fine if the person covers up the tattoo with clothing or a sticker, etc. In fact stickers for this purpose are in shops - a friend told me a public bath once even provided her with one when she forgot.

But this isn't ok. That's the point.

> So, while I don't agree with it, it's not exactly the human rights crisis you're envisioning.

??? I think that Japanese should be accepting of other people and cultures. It happens to be that we're talking about tattoos, but it could easily be something else.

> Also, it sounds like you're holding very strong opinions about something you don't know any details of, which is generally a bad idea.

False.
I have not written about it. Most of the difficulty and complexity, from my perspective, is in the data science and processing required to construct an accurate population model, which requires additional data sources beyond the mobile telemetry. I designed the custom database platforms (easy for me) underneath which supported the online data processing.

It isn't that difficult technically, if you have experts doing it, it just requires far more domain expertise to do correctly than I think people expect. You also need to be willing to write some of your own tooling to deal with the data efficiently and effectively.
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Only you need a volume license for that, and if you have the dough to spend on that, presumably you'd get a higher-specced CPU.
Some limit although I could easily see it doubling especially if there's a lot of "deadheading" to reposition empty vehicles. I think about my own situation and I'd definitely go to more evening events and I'd be inclined to go further for weekend recreation if I didn't need to personally drive.

As for your other points, they mostly apply if 100% autonomous vehicles were the only thing on the road. Even if they were available today (which they're not really all that close to), it's hard to see that being a political possibility for many decades even if there were no other obstacles.
> How do you delineate clearly?

> One area this comes into with California is we’ve been using those Botts' Dots. The automated vehicles [AVs] can follow lane lines. They can’t follow the Botts' Dots, so we’re actually changing our delineation standards to go away from the Botts' Dots which we’ve been using for decades because AVs have a difficult time following those.

That is very surprising due to claims of superhuman image recognition due to deep learning. Is it because of speed issues?
We may need to first live with some ISP shenanigans before everybody fully understands what network neutrality is about.

A few years ago, I noticed that frontier was hijacking Google searches. A search bar search for "Amazon" went straight to amazon.com, complete with an affiliate id!

I wrote a letter to the Frontier CEO, sent it via FedEx, and she called me directly within hours of receiving it. The gist of my letter was, "by behaving this way, you are bringing the debate on yourself." She was unaware her company was doing this and stopped the practice.

This is a small example that's easily detectable externally (unlike internal network traffic shaping). But we may need to cycle through a few stories like this to cut through the rhetoric.
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I think so. It is similar to CloudHSM, but you don't have to trust Amazon!
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Interesting, and at first I was excited about the possibilities in something like D&D, where a series of bad rolls can have you feeling down. "I'm due for a critical hit any swing now..."

Players would love that! Make my hero feel more heroic! The inevitable comeback!

But then I thought about the inverse case -- you are doing really well, and now you are due for a failure. Or series of failures. That would feel awful.

We have a lot of emotions around dice rolling. I wonder if players really want from their dice. Would players prefer dice that are secretly unevenly weighted towards good rolls? Would they still want those dice if they knew they were weighted?
Something BIG udacity, Any guesses what they are releasing now?
I hear this line of reasoning frequently and have come to agree with it. Is it even really a donation when donating 150 million has zero impact on your quality of life? There should be some self-sacrifice for it to actually be a gesture of goodwill. I don't pat myself on the back for donating excess clothes.
The bank I work at employees 70,000 people and has ginormous computers too. You should see our resource usage.
This was flagged from being a Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14805340) because you can't "try it out"...

However, you can try this out by installing to any Slack team (including a dummy one). It's not a 'blog post' but a fully functional app.

Hope MODs will allow editing it to be a Show HN...
Maybe im just a debbie downer but I don't see how these could possibly compete with metal sintering and traditional milling and CNC work. An inferior metal alloy with a huge price tag that will require machining anyways.
Sure, but carbon is the gun pointed at our heads right now. I suggest paying attention to it.
r/stopdrinking is also a very supportive community.
You are wise to seek out advise on this. Loneliness is a terrible thing that can have very serious consequences like depression.
Lot of comments here are suggesting activities like dancing etc. There is no harm in doing these activities but you have to do them because they interest you and you enjoy doing them. If you try to do things just to meet people, you will surely meet people but they will not become your friends because you have different interests/ personalities and have less in common with them. Do things that you like (sports, music, video games etc.) and seek out people who do those things. You will make friends more easily. Also, do not disregard friends that you made in school/college. They can be lifelong friends. If you have lost contact with them, seek out contact again. If you are religious, go to your church/temple/mosque. Sense of community, belonging and socialization are some of the biggest benefits of religion. It is likely to alleviate loneliness.
You mean the pseudorandom distribution? IIRC that was even a part of DotA 1.
While there are concerns here, this whole thing is a total red herring.

For what it's worth, here's our general position on these issues: https://medium.com/@Emoji_Domains/ssac-response-d8d2ad6e800c
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> IMHO the term "blockchain", in current and common use, actually means Merkle trees applied to time-series information that is shared between multiple computers over the internet, hence 'distributed database'.

As I note elsewhere in this thread, you literally get that with Git, which was released in 2005 and based on previous work in DVCSes back to the late 1990s. And Merkle trees were invented in 1979.

The new thing in blockchains is the consensus mechanism. The best-known example uses as much electricity as Ireland.

One could call Git a "blockchain", but it'd pretty clearly be trying to synthesise a history for a neologism ...

I suspect "blockchain" products that survive will be tamper-evident transaction ledgers, and I already had one dev admit to me that his company's "distributed ledger technology" product was basically a simplified Git ...
> massive subsidies.

That's what governments are for.
I don't think we should just find the single house with the worst connection speeds and measure that. But, I am willing to pay a lot more to go from 5-10Mbps than 50-55Mbps. Because connection speed has diminishing marginal utility. If you take the log of connection speeds and average that you IMO get closer to what people care about.

Further, if netflix wants to roll out 4k service they don't really care about max bandwidth just percentage of households over a given threshold.

The same idea is why the broadband report you linked cares about % over some threshold not simply averages.

PS: Internet connections are surprisingly cheap to deploy, we have roads to 'everyone's' house. Fiber is fairly cheap, companies simply have no incentive to build it vs. say they will build it.
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I find that libertarians are hopelessly out of touch when it comes to the Net Neutrality debate. Sticking to their ideologies is fully expected, and I respect that they actually have a well thought-out ideology, but unfortunately it just doesn't jive with reality.

The the efficiency of the market only works when there is an actual market. We have none. Not even Google could break the Telco strangle-hold on the market. (Google Fiber has basically folded) In an environment like that, removing regulation only serves the incumbent monopoly.

Healthy competition would be great, but it's not realistic anymore. At this point we need our government to stand up for us.
"The mechanism that provides roaming is based on trust, so anyone connected to the SS7 network can query the location of any phone in the world and even intercept its calls."

One of the first things I did after opening the article was to search for the string "ss7" ... was disappointed to see it mentioned zero times ...
What bad things have come out of it?
We get it. You don't like Tumblr. Really, we get it.

It's completely irrelevant to the fact that QR codes have been a punchline in the west since shortly after their introduction, but yes, we understand that you don't like Tumblr. That's the takeaway.
Right. Because once you have AI the laws of physics no longer apply. The braking distance with an instantaneous reaction time at just 40mph is still about 20 feet.
I don't know about other countries, but in India, the Rail power grid is completely isolated from the consumer grid.

Also, from a technical standpoint, especially for renewable energy systems, it's best to have isolated pockets of energy generation and consumption rather than a country wide grid.

Due to the intermittent nature of power available from renewable energy sources, it's best to have micro grids and micro storage systems.

In case of railway lines, the load on the network can be calculated to a very good accuracy, unlike the consumer grid. Hypothetically, this can mean that the rail grid can be isolated and be managed at a very high efficiency level.
That's what git bisect does
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> folly

Small cultural artifacts move humanity in more subtle ways than the utilitarian behemoths mentioned by you.

Weebls Stuff and Rathergood influenced my thinking a lot by introducing 14yo me to absurd. I'm sure less popular creations made in Flash had some effect too.
This is what git-bisect does :)
As many as you need.

Cryptocurrencies were easy to use day 1, for people who know what they're doing. The level of technical expertise needed is dropping over time, and will continue to do so.

Just as computers were the domain of computer scientists when they first appeared, but nowadays everyone has a smart phone in their pocket.

(BTW, let us not forget that everyone thought the idea of a Personal Computer was crazy. It's no wonder that people today think the idea of a Personal Bank is crazy.)
> Clinton lost because the DNC cheater to get her where she was in the first place

There is no grand conspiracy. Stop kidding yourself. More Democrats preferred Hillary over Bernie. End of story. The reason is obvious: Bernie Sanders is not a democrat. Bernie Sanders is a democratic socialist. He joined the Democratic party solely for a larger support base and because the Democrats align more with his ideals than Republicans do.

It is absolutely no surprise that the DNC establishment preferred an establishment candidate who had long been a prominent member of the party. Not some coat-tail hanger-on using the predominantly liberal base of a party that he only nominally belongs to. He does not represent the interests (arguably) of the majority of the Democratic party voters. That's why he lost.
I googled "RNG" because I wanted to know what it meant, but was presented with an interactive widget that generated numbers.
How does enforcing net neutrality enable censorship? What does one thing have to do with the other?

And what about the (in my opinion, more realistic in the United States) risk of private corporations such as Internet service providers restricting what their users see? Especially when you consider in how many cases your choices are one ISP or else no Internet access at all?
> there's no science around those

There's considerable science around them and there interrelationship.

> "Gender studies" and such are not science in any form.

Gender (and, likewise, ethnic, etc.) studies is an interdisciplinary domain that includes both science and non-science elements; the science around sex, gender, and gender identity, though, is found in human biology, psychology/neuroscience, sociology, anthropology, and other fields, though it is, of course, often of interest to gender/women's/queer studies.
What’s /r/the_donald, and how did it »then happen«?
Aw, you beat me to it. I had a meeting to run to and didn't respond. But adding to that there is a whole wiki (of course there is) about this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob
I made this specifically for my online D&D sessions. I can tell you that nobody was suspicious when I replaced the standard Math.random() with this version, and all of the "I think your dice function is broken" statements all the sudden stopped happening.
Moving from Ruby to both Elixir and JavaScript (node) strongly improved developer productivity, performance, and time to release.

Ruby/Rails isn’t bad as such, but it’s slow and promotes a very convoluted & interdependent monolith by default.

Very happy with the change.
If you don't know what SNFS is, the headline is a little misleading. It hasn't gotten easier to solve 1024 bit discrete logs (ie: to break 1024 bit FFDH) --- though it's already presumed feasible to do so given state-level resources.

Instead, the authors have extended a proposed backdoor attack from the 1990s to 1024 bit parameters. Specifically, they show that it is now practical to generate a set of SNFS parameters that will produce a random-looking prime with L=1024 N=160 (ie, a plausible DSA parameter). Since the prime is generated to conform to SNFS, it's much easier to solve discrete logs in than a general prime; the difficulty of attacking systems built on it is reduced from state-level to university-level.

It was possible in the '90s to generate these weakened parameters, but not to hide them effectively --- making them useless as NOBUS parameters. Two things appear to have made this tricky: first, the primes in common use at the time were 512/160, and the smaller gap between L/p and N/q gave less flexibility to backdoor designers; secondly, we have much better compute available today. Also, we (meaning them, not me) understand NFS a lot better than we used to.

This paper is interesting from a scientific standpoint and from the standpoint of Kremlinology ("could NSA have done this to earlier systems? was this ever in their repertoire?"). It's not as interesting from a practical perspective today, because:

* 1024 bit FFDH is already presumed broken, and while the compute resources needed to attack SNFS-weakened 1024 bit FFDH might not be state-level, the logistical resources needed to get an SNFS-weakened 1024 bit prime deployed probably still are.

* The most common 1024 bit FFDH parameters we use are if not entirely verifiable than at least significantly more constrained than the parameters this paper generates (for instance, if not derived from the bits of pi, as some are, than at least sequential series of primes).

Most importantly: we've moved away as a field not only from FFDH itself, but also from asymmetric systems with opaque parameters. The Curve25519 parameters, for instance, have clear, easily understood performance and security rationales.
A great application for this is in randomizing playlists. My friends, who are also CS grads and should know better, have often complained that their MP3 players, CD carousels, etc play the same music too often claiming that the random is broken, when a song repeating in a short period of time or other songs never playing is what you would expect from a truly random selection. Using this algorithm, you'd be sure to hear all of your songs. I'm guessing most music services already do something like this.
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Hey everyone, I built a CRM in my spare time that has become pretty complex and feature rich. Now I want to sell it!

I know some of you guys here have done something similar, and I'd like to get your advice on how to make some sales.

Thanks everybody!
Hey, glad you like it! We haven't properly benchmarked our models yet, but it's one of the things at the top of our ToDo list. (However, we will only run benchmarks on some selected "standard" environments, given our limited resources.)
> If you’re relying on c99 complex or std::complex and fast complex operations, and you don’t have -fcx-limited-range or -ffast-math turned on, you should probably consider this a bug in your project.

I would rephrase this as, "If you care about floating point performance and have not investigated the compiler flags related to floating point performance, consider this a bug in your project."
"this method will only work with GSM network because ..."

Yes, that's true - but remember that all of our 3G/4G phones are also 2G phones and that if you disable/jam/overpower the 3G/4G signals the phone will very happily revert down to 2G, possibly with no encryption, and possibly in a way that you have to be very careful to even notice.

There are quite a few attacks that are mitigated by 3G/4G in theory, but in practice you're still vulnerable to because your phone can be downgraded to 2G by an outside actor.
Most of my major life breakthroughs have been supported by communities on Reddit. Career, health, hobbies, you name it. Lots of irrational hate on there, but the irrational love is why I keep going back.
For now you can, but only until grandma dies. Once the daytime OTA TV watching voting group is small enough, Telco mafia will completely repurpose the spectrum.
[1]https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/business/dealbook/tv-s...
Better have games without dice rolls. Unexpected events could come from other non-random sources (like the combination of a lot of factors involving other players actions).
You probably were thinking of the CCCen YouTube channel? That never was an official channel, but a copy-cat that just uploaded all the CCC stuff, and was banned for it.
yeah but now it applies for I think everything. The last one to go was Spirit Breaker's bash. Prior to that PA's crit.
Funny thing is that with PRNG you can "warm up" via farming creep camps so if you don't crit in say 5 attacks you can go look for a fight and be "guaranteed" a crit with your first swing.
Because most of us are not laissez faire people, and we absolutely do care, because in order for FB to deliver that, other things, potentially competing things, would have to be slowed down.
Gender studies is probably not what GP had in mind. People who do gender studies don't generally consider their work science, from what I've seen.

In contrast, people whose work is more generally accepted as scientific, such as psychological and medical researchers, have certainly studied both gender identity and sex characteristics. I imagine (but might be wrong) that ascribed gender is more a topic for sociologists and other social scientists that empirically study social behavior or legal structures, but they definitely do study it.
See page 13. Given an SNFS-weakened 1024 bit prime, a single discrete log (ie, a break of a single handshake or signature) cost 80 minutes.
It's a safe dwelling for a mix of sycophant bots, Trump supporters/red-pillers, trolls, and possibly Russians (depending on who you ask).

Warning: once you see it, you can't un-see it.
This isn't necessarily a good or bad thing, but the sheer number of people and crawlable public content it is an ever-growing training dataset for AI. This has potential to be dangerous.
Yes, that's why an average isn't too meaningful. The times these things are on aren't the same for every house, but they are correlated.
I think it's worth noting most Linux distros will continue to support these machines with new features and security patches for the time being.
There are tons more of these forums and Reddit is probably the least trafficked out of all those I know about.
Sure, can you share an email?
The core of Reddit has become rotten not from the_donald; the site admins are 100% at fault. Trying to make their site 100% advertiser friendly has subsequently killed all transparency in what votes do, how subreddits are ranked, and killed a lot of discourse that was not corporate palatable.

I still enjoy the smaller subreddits. Unfortunately anything political becomes brigaded, but things like /r/gamingsuggestions and local city subreddits still make the site worthwhile to me.
The fact that fentanyl (which is 100x more powerful than morphine) is so readily available/mixed with common drugs across the United States is excruciatingly horrifying.
Kratom saves lives.
You can't see the difference between something where it's difficult to even figure out who the user is and something else where anonymity depends entirely on you trusting the service provider and them not being subject to a court order?
Hi Michael,

To think I messed around with Valgrind ;) This is much easier.

I look at the particulars of the grouping and think 'no, that's not right', and 'that can't be with this', and 'that can be with that', and so on. The results are far too back-of-the-envelope to be right. But the approach is excellent, and that's the main thing :)

I'm going to crunch through the IR recording and work out the ILP with/without speculation etc. Will leave pipelining and auto-vectorization off the table. As this is all public stuff I reckon the results can be made public.

Wanna work with me on this? I'd like you back. This time it might work. Mail me :)

/Will
Please do not spread unfounded conspiracy theories here. There is absolutely nothing to back up that position.
Nothing you're saying is untrue, but is no less true than any other internet forum. There were discussion cesspools on CompuServe and USENET and Myspace. Facebook has its shady groups too, and 4chan is worse than any of these. There's nothing about "reddit" that makes it much different, other than its size.

Good and bad people everywhere. It sucks.
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While Firefox on mobile is virtually nonexistent, what this post asserts just doesn't look true to me. He's basically asserting that Chrome is where Internet Explorer was in the late 90's, but when I see what browser people are using for presentations, or when I am pair-programming or otherwise able to see directly what people are using, I see Firefox commonly. Outside the U.S., I don't have much visibility, but the StatCounter data (https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr...) which shows Firefox on the increase in the last year, looks a lot more like what I am witnessing.
This is a good Embedded.fm podcast episode interviewing one of the professors that was key in starting the trend of small satellites.

http://embedded.fm/episodes/195