skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Likewise any cryptocurrency cannot be forceably stolen by the threat of state violence -- the math does not permit it.

You're underestimating violence. They just need the key: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/security.png

Of course that's going to be harder if you don't know who holds the key, but judging from all the raided darknet markets it's definitely not impossible to figure that out.
Yes, you would have to read the source code. My guess reading the README.md is that due to the dependencies in the README.md its a JPEG competitor that is fast due to HEVC. The README.md even says this is still experimental. This project really looks too immature to be posted on HN without a technical breakdown. (This is not to disparage the software but for people to remain interested there would have to be at least some benchmark and it would be nice with a visual comparison).
On most recent firmware, there is an exponential backoff on WPS connection attempts.
Down for a week or two, then back up.
ChatBot for Image Manipulation
I think the real dark pattern here is the stupid animated scribbles under the section headers.

WTF?! Is this 1997? Why don't you bring back the blink tag while you're at it!

Sigh.
5 million hashes only take a few seconds for wpa2 anyway...
Less than two for this system:
https://gist.github.com/epixoip/a83d38f412b4737e99bbef804a27...
Fair point. I know the current public website is far from the best. The product however is quite solid (I think).

Here is what a sample feedback page looks like: https://visualtip.com/3c5090a169f6b9e955d3b57b9401497b
That's doubltful. AMD is happy to provide bespoke chips for big customers (like the XBox) but what you want for inference is to multiply entire int8 matrixies in hardware dataflow. The silicon providing float32 support in an AMD GPU isn't needed and their dataflows only extend to vectors rather than matrices. In the case where the matrix you're multiplying is much bigger than the execution hardware you can throw at it this doesn't make a big difference in efficiently using adders. But using vectors rather than matrices is hugely wasteful of register read ports if you're always doing matrix operations and don't also have to excel at operations which are only vectors.
Building a Bayesian deep learning classifier
The Google employee thought the contract terms were worth the job so signed it
If Google resources were used to create it (machines, the author's 20% time, google tools, etc), or if the author lives in a state/country without moonlighting protections.

I guess the former, and the author might be doing it as a 20% project owned by Google in the hopes of making it a larger, more successful project.
So did I but I can't find it.....
Point taken, In my argument I wanted to seperate individuals avoiding tax, and buisnesses deliberatly undermining rights.

Also, people who do AirBnB, have an asset, unlike gig workers, so at least they have something to negotiate with.
In the end, the article reads as an advertisement for the union they're joining. That's probably the general purpose of the article anyway.

That said, it does drive home the overall point that "inequality" is a very complicated issue, and for all the good PR that Facebook and Zuckerberg have, they're just as guilty, inasmuch as there is any real guilt to assign.

Facebook certainly has the money, and if they do indeed care about wealth inequality, they would do well to start at their own doorstep. So this worker is a contractor. So what? Very convenient; result still stands.
I'm a fan of Scott Aaronson's take on IIT: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1799
When I was in school and taking some network security classes I attempted to crack my own wifi. Even after buying a wifi card that could do what I need I faced hardware isssues. It was a major PIA.

It was almost easier to automate a brute force, sit back and wait.
An argument that explicitly talks about the consequences of unethical behaviour when it happens is not painting anyone as ethical paragons. You are missing the point, I think.
Google has had their TPU out for a while now. And the next generation of NVidia GPU is supposed to have neural network accelerating hardware.
This is a problem with zoning in the area. Paying these workers more money would enable them to move out of a garage, but the amount of housing would stay the same, causing prices to rise until someone else is forced into a garage. Unfortunately, local governments in the south Bay area are controlled by people who want to maximize the price of their houses, injury to the poor and middle class be damned.
Sorry for having to be "that guy" but they're living in Menlo Park for crying out loud! I'd love to live in Menlo Park too, but I can't afford it, so instead I live 2 hours away and commute to work like everyone else. In the Bay Area, living close to work is pretty much a luxury for the rich.
Yeah, um, protip: avoid those.
> The five-year survival rate for prostate cancer in the UK is 55%, whereas in the US it's upwards of 90%.

Such survival rates are from date of diagnosis; IIRC, because prostate cancer detected early usually doesn't have interventions that are less harmful than the cancer is likely to be, there's considerable debate about the utility of screening; there has been considerable argument that the US tends to overscreen and over-intervene for prostate cancer.

If the UK doesn't do that and tends to screen in a way that tends to catch less of the less-imminently-dangerous prostate cancers, it would have a lower 5-year survival rate simply by not diagnosing prostate cancer where the diagnosis isn't usefully actionable; this doesn't mean they are actually worse at dealing with it.

> Prostate cancer is an incredibly treatable form of cancer; for most people, as long as it's detected early and managed appropriately, they will die with prostate cancer as opposed to from it

Prostate cancer is very often an extremely non-aggressive cancer with interventions that can have significant negative impacts, which is why, even when it's diagnosed “watchful waiting” or “active surveillance” are often the preferred management approaches; quite a lot of people will die with, rather than from, prostate cancer with no active intervention.

Population-wide 5-year survival rates from diagnosis are probably not a good metric for comparing countries with different screening practices; mortality rates are a better comparison metric, but also don't tell the whole story.
Sadly, the US tax code rewards not getting married, doubly so if both partners are high earners (see the marriage penalty). If you don't like this, don't concern troll, instead, ask your representatives why this continues to exist.
Yeah; I mean if the key does not exist, as in the registration party deletes the key after it has been created.

Of course the state can torture a person until they hand over the key -- if it exists.
This was posted in HN as well, but it serves to repost it for this question:
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-80...

Having material things is worthless unless you do not have any long, deep, and meaningful relationship and belong in a community. We, humans, long for deep connections. None of the material things will make you happy unless you share it.
Well that is how new tech is often proven
> computer algebra system

I was thinking maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Authentication_Service for a moment. I was playing with http://casino.rbcas.com/ last week as a better way to login to GitLab running in the office.
Is it pronounced as "pic"? In that case, I don't see the problem.
Apparently good money does not translate into a liveable wage.

"Stop grandstanding and take care of your own house first" is more of the message of this article, I'd say.
I wonder if a sacrifice is always necessary for certain types of improvement. (e.g. the titantic had to crash for safer boats, WWII had to happen for less war, etc...)
The Snopes report seems pretty good to me. It may not be favorable to your company's product or plan, but it cites legitimate concerns and douses some inaccurate speculation by some Facebook page looking for likes.
But I think the problem is with people that have mental issues. There may not be a reason for it, but they want to find one anyway. They want validation, and one way is to find some external factor for why they are miserable. So they start digging in their mind for traumas, they try to reinterpret events from the past. Why someone didn't like them, why they were always sad as a child, etc. This person looked at old family photographs and saw that on all of them they look unhappy. Must be rape right? Me, afraid of sleeping in dark, wow, must be a reason for that, for sure it must be childhood abuse, rape and so on. The pseudo-scientific therapist mumbo-jumbo, repressed memories, it's all bullshit. And I understand that now, nobody can convince me otherwise anymore.
lol wut...

As opposed to?

Wait, let me guess, UUIDs right?
The part that stood out for me was:

"I am about to begin a systematic study of the subject in preparation for practical work to which I expect to devote what time I can spare from my regular business."
I think you may be blind, mate ;) There's a big, black DONATE button near the bottom of the article.
Your definition feels pretty reasonable, but I think the issue is that the term "AI" is being slapped on tons of services that do extremely basic predictions. If it has a formula in it, it's now "AI".
At the moment they get payments from the government to purchase ACA gold plans from the Washington DC exchange.

(the Gold plans are closest to other federal government provided health insurance...)

Of course, many members of Congress are quite wealthy and wouldn't be much more than annoyed by a bill in the tens of thousands of dollars.
Have you found a wifi card that will work on any laptop or desktop?
Yep. A lot of junior people at the large companies roomshare, because they can't afford living by themselves. Many of the slightly more tenured people can finally get a place if they are willing to have a 90-120 minute commute. (Each direction)

The bay area is a giant clusterfuck when it comes to housing.
It's at least as crazy as you think.

I don't think that anybody really believes that the mess we've made of billing/paying-for services via insurance + government + hospital/doctor is a good idea. At least nobody who has dealt with it for more than 5 minutes, which is most people over 25.

The problem is that nobody can agree on how to fix it. One side wants to socialize the whole thing, the other side wants to do... something else, I guess. Regardless, neither side has enough power to just do what they want, so we're stuck with this bizarre Frankenstein's monster instead.

Meanwhile it's almost impossible to escape from the mess. You can't just have no insurance and pay for yourself, because they've made the prices for most things ludicrously high and then basically rebated them to the insurance companies.

Actually, it reminds me just a bit of that paraphrase of the Laws of Thermodynamics: you can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the game.
Have you ever worked in food services or retail? If not, you don't know what you're talking about, because this kind of thing happens all the time because people abuse the system.

The parent commenter is not even the one making up the reason. She/he is simply explaining the reason why such a policy commonly exists.

FWIW, most places also allow the workers to eat the food before/during/after they work there.
We have rules in place that allow the population to peacefully protest without interfering with the business of others. These people didn't follow the rules and were punished accordingly just like every other law on the books.

If you are unable to enact the change you want from within the system it's because not enough people agree with the change you are proposing.

Welcome to the complexities of Society.

If you don't want to participate you don't have to. Abandon the laws of man and return to the laws of nature. Just remember the law of nature demands conflict be resolved in the favor of the more powerful will. I doubt very much you would fair well.
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It's not the same thing.

Kite's business model is attack against open source, thus pertinent to tech.

Eich's view on marriage is completely unrelated and attacks on his professional career for this are abhorrent and juvenile and should be condemned rather than encouraged. Even if you disagree with Eich's stance (which for the record I do).
A major area of Canadian health care which is not covered by the socialized system ends up looking a lot like the US system? How expected.
what made you think that I suggested this ? I worked at a major retail chain that has a deli while in college and this was the reason my manager told me. i'm just passing that info here.
> See also senior and older FB engineers being discouraged from participating in perks and events intended for younger and junior employees because FB can multitask at sucking.

Can you elaborate? I don't recall ever seeing anything of the sort while I worked there.
Functional Programming in Scala for the Working Class Java Programmer Part 1
"Free time" can mean time spent on the job not contributing to his delegated tasks, such as 20% time.
> I'm unfamiliar with how the US stats get collected - is that 90% of "everyone who had prostate cancer" survives 5+ years; or is that "everyone who had prostate cancer and private medical insurance"?

It's survival rate from point of diagnosis. Obviously, insurance and access will affect whether and when diagnosis occurs, but the effects aren't as simple as just limiting the scope to the insured or not.
We're talking about how much the hospital has to pay its suppliers

Except suppliers can engage in their own fiat prices, as the OP demonstrates.

But your narrative does show the basic situation - where you have an elaborate digraph of buyers and sellers, most of which have a more or less monopolistic position. These monopolistic suppliers initially/formally set their prices based on "what they could possibly imagine getting", expecting regulators/down-stream-buyer to be the ones who will push things back into sanity (or not).

American health care, of course, has bounced from regulatory regime to another, with all of the players having to adjust. And moreover, all the players are now adept at adjusting, able to switch gears to leverage whatever ad-hoc cost reductions might go with any new system (cautious enough to lay-low when the new system comes since they know the politicians need to point to gains but will move on - see the way Obamacare worker great for two years, etc, etc).

And with all the bouncing, the situation has gotten only broadly more catastrophic. Health care was ~18% of GDP a year or two ago and no doubt is higher still.

Not only does health care have a problem but the four or eight cycle of ad-hoc fixes to health care has itself broken. Which might relate to the general breakdown of the countries political system, and so-on. I assume when (part of) Rome fell apart, no had seen an empire disintegrate on quite those terms (where a lot of civilization still remained on higher terms than Rome's neighbors). Perhaps our descendants will look back on this era in similar terms.
ReactOS may have its issues, but the (Ms)Paint implementation in ReactOS that frik is talking about is pretty stable. And open-source: https://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/base/appli...
My site gets 50-100 users a day (https://www.findlectures.com). I got a ton of great feedback, which I'm slowly working through, e.g. bug reports, requests for more content, and one $20 sponsorship. I've also got a conference talk coming up at a Solr conference in September.

I have just under 900 people signed up for an email list of hand-picked talk recommendations - about 200 of these were from HN, and a couple people sign up every day.

Based on the feedback I got, I'm working on an add-on to send email alerts with talks based on people's interests (if you want in, contact me, I need a few beta users)
Ahh, the good old false equivalency.
Some time ago someone recommended SpeedCrunch to me for calculator stuff and I use it all the time now. It's a little bit less intuitive since it takes a syntax instead of presenting buttons, but it does a ton more.
There's religion and there's spirituality. Aim to be more spiritual and less religious. Having a connection with God, Source, Universal Force, whatever you call it is spirituality. Quoting Bible verses and judging others based on a book is religious righteousness.
Yea, but they use reusable shopping bags and drive a Tesla. So obvs. they care about people and the environment.
The gig economy was enabled by technology, not a change in labour market regulations.
It definitely seems like there's quite a bit of luck in getting to the front page - submitting at the right time when people who would be interested happen to be looking at 'new' and feeling like upvoting. It's definitely worth resubmitting a few times (at tactically advantageous times of day).

That said, you might want to add a few sentences describing VisualTips, and maybe the backstory, on your submission. A lot of people click into the comments to get a bit more context and decide whether or not they actually want to click into the submitted item itself.

Also, it would be helpful to have some kind of visual description on your homepage. I have a pretty good image in my mind from the text, but for such a _visual_ product it would be really helpful to see screenshots or, even better, a gif of it in action. Those visuals would likely help people get more excited about it.
I'd never get a phone that doesn't have a micro SD card reader.
I'm curious to know what actual figures look like for how much people actually view videos on news sites. I know I personally almost never do but I'm not sure that I am anything like a typical user.
I would guess many 20-somethings have recommended a mac to their parents with this as one of the bullet points. At a time, it was more or less true - when dropping a virus on your windows PC was as easy as loading a malicious activex website, macs just didn't even have it. Not to say macs weren't vulnerable, but the attack surface was lower and the cost/benefit to people trying to bot-net your mom's Mac was higher than everyone's unpatched Compaq running Win98.
So the scenario becomes:
a) use DNS
b) use "central"-ENS, but if the domain is already registered now I have to sue some .ch organisation to unregister it.
c) use regular ENS and live with whatever namespace entries are free

a) offers everything b offers, but its likely cheaper and has a real-world dispute resolution process.

Take a look at the grandfather of decentralized DNS namespace; .bit from namecoin. After 6 years it has not found its place in the internet name ecosystem.
There's a difference between the requirements for licensing being excessive and "massive debt".
If you work at Google everything you make, even in your spare time, belongs to them. That's how the contracts work, unfortunately.
Useful tips for getting better results from email marketing campaigns
Video ads go for more money, and publishers are pivoting in that direction as a result.
You're operating in such a simplified view of "economics" so as to be totally useless. And there's also some extreme bias here, you admit to not having the a good understanding of the workers rights movement but you believe that workers got better of in spite of the movement? What's that saying about an open mind but not too open? I really urge you to expand your view of the labor market into one that takes into account real world elements like frictions, coercion, monopsony power of employers, imperfect information and hell maybe some economic history. What you are talking about just is not the real world.
There are all sorts of wonderful shop classes and related perks at FB. Older and senior talent in my experience is discouraged from attending these classes. Maybe they weren't always that way or maybe someone smacked them with a clue bat over that behavior, don't know...
Apple's Hypercard website redirects to the Wikipedia article
A professor who invents his own version of tree but can not program. Seriously. Is this common in academic circles where a computer professor who can not program ?
TSN and Sportsnet both cover hockey really well, google them. And not just the NHL, the minor leagues too. It helps that hockey is basically a religion in Canada.
I'm sorry for your current struggles. I too was recently bitten; billed $4500 for a $40 blood test, with no recourse.

--

My state's bad ass Insurance Commissioner is trying to mitigate this problem:

Surprise billing legislation passes state House of Representatives

https://www.insurance.wa.gov/news/surprise-billing-legislati...

Be sure to call and voice support. Public pressure matters.

Long-term fix is single payer, universal coverage. Remove the (worst) profiteering from our healthcare system (racket).
We're seeing a lot of different formats lately. So to make this more generic, I'm thinking we should move to an encoding-independent format. That is, the file contains an encoding-id, and the decoder can be downloaded from a standard location (a website run by a standards organization) using the encoding-id as a reference. Of course, this can be cached.

The decoder can be in different formats, e.g. bytecode, WASM, i386, ARM, etcetera. But of course, any binary decoders should be verified by the standards organization before it is published.
Colbert said it best: "Reality has a well-known liberal bias".
ewwww c++
China overtakes the US in investment in AI
I agree, I've always found the use of the word 'steroids' in this manner pretty crude.
> or they have to institute a court ordered hard fork to recover the keys.

And if they can pull that one out, ETC will overtake ETH.
IME real users don't care about the app being aesthetically different, but they do care if the common idioms have changed(e.g. position of OK/Cancel). That shouldn't depend on your toolkit, though.
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I'm not sure why this is amazing enough to make the first page but W/E it's HN :). Just so less informed are aware, this has been feasible for maybe 7 years (since GPU calculation became possible).

Just so nobody freaks out, this is cracking weak passwords, not broken WPA.

I have myself cracked countless WiFi passwords when security testing. It's easy if the passwords are bad, which is maybe 90% of the time for home networks and 60% for businesses. The attack is completely passive if you don't want to be noticed, and with a cheap dish you can pickup both ends of the handshakes from up to around a quarter mile away (line of sight).
Why is a clear, insightful comment like this being downvoted? Is it not true?
Why not get rid of political NIMBYism? Aritficially reducing housing supply to increase demand is morally wrong.
It's not Comcast's responsibility to support someone else's business model.

It's also not Netflix's responsibility to support Comcast's business model if they can't afford to provide bandwidth that customers desire and are allowed.

It's Comcast's responsibility to support their advertised usage sufficiently. If they say that they support 100mbps then I should be able to get 100mbps from wherever I like. They're going to have to pay for that uplink somewhere, whether it's Netflix or Google or Zayo or Level3 or whoever.
Very interesting! Quart reminds me of Klein, https://klein.readthedocs.io/en/latest/