skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or Frederic Bastiat's "Candlemaker's Petition", which was a satirical request that officials block out the sun in order "to encourage industry and stimulate employment".

http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
I don't understand - are you suggesting the only way to know you could have done something better, is to see someone else doing the same thing for comparison? That's certainly one way. Others include... all the ways you evaluate the execution of a company or project, when you don't have a direct competitor to compare it with, no?
It takes 1-3 business days for a US bank to transfer any amount and I am sure it will be even higher if the transaction is not matching a usual pattern of your victim. So 144 million bank accounts mean nothing with such long processing delays
What if you have no cell phone or computer?
Sorry, but Bar is right. Unless you have profiled, the list is fine.

It might even be faster (cache locality etc as another said -- if the list is contiguous).

But even more so: you don't even need to profile, unless you have an actual problem with execution speed. If it's fast enough that you don't have to care, you don't have to care.
CST will use them for EM simulation, with near linear performance increase for added GPU. I have 4 Teslas in my Microway workstation. Fortunately it also allows for the addition of a decent graphics card, so I can run 3x 4k monitors.
I haven't heard much of the Russian dossier on Trump since shortly after the initial news broke. Was it proven to be fake or is it just that there's been public evidence to suggest that it's real?
I have a small group, but we instituted a rule that our project manager would handle all customer communications. This was a win in many ways. Our dev team would not be interrupted except for very serious problems, and it actually made our customers feel better when he would tell them he's communicating with the "dev team."
Looks like the website is down.. the old HN hug of death.
Reputation is built with journals, not publishers.

Publishers _do_ add value to _conferences_ by helping out with funding. Since most smaller interesting conferences aren't at all profitable, it's a "symbiotic" relationship between the conference and the publisher: the publisher effectively runs the conference in return for having exclusive distribution rights over the proceedings. Sucks for the profs and students though.

When a conference gets big enough to raise their own funding _and_ bold enough to shirk their publisher's exclusivity contract, in-house distribution begins to make sense.
According to the SSG website, Autodesk Maya will fully support the SSG, including the 2TB memory.

"ProRender plug-in for Maya has full support for the out-of-core rendering feature found on the Radeon™ Pro SSG which allows the application to tap into the full 2TB of memory found locally on the card. This allows users with very large models to render fully accelerated by the GPU. "
Yeah - my use case is kind of specialised, but I could use them all, asking as I can use NUMA to pin memory to physical CPUs.

I wpild be interested to see how pytorch scales GPU wise, relative to CPU clock speed. I am sure there is a point where it will fall off, but not having a 4 GPU system I can't check :)
Tell that to all the banks that had been sued for millions for losses due to phishing attacks. My mom's bank was one of them. The criminals got the money out successfully somehow.
Working for any kind of commonplace salary? I absolutely agree. Nobody is going to pay the kind of money that would justify working those kinds of hours if you really take opportunity cost, etc., into account. If the job pays half a million a year, sure, go for it, but realistically that isn't going to happen.

OTOH, if you have serious equity (and by "serious equity" I basically mean "you are the founder of the company and own somewhere between 50%-100% of the company) then sure, do it. At least you're making that sacrifice for something that has a chance (however small) of making your dreams come true.

Why in the hell work 70+ hours a week, risk your health, give up time you could be doing something of your own, etc., to make someone else's dreams come true?
I pay for HBO Go on Apple TV. I really like HBOs interface. It's very simple. Clean.
Who said you get to use a ready-made Get method / hash?
> ghostwritten of course

Proof?

> this is definitely not standard Amazon operating procedure

Proof?
As tuples? You can very easily traverse the list, check for the key in the 0 index of the tuple, and get the value on the 1 index.

Not efficient, but very much possible.
Agree. I actually have a phobia about cockroaches that manifests itself in a physical reaction when I encounter them. That has been a huge factor in me avoiding checking them out, as even seeing their icon graphic in the header gives me a visceral reaction. I'm sure it is a great DB, but the branding doesn't make me want to visit any time soon.
Let me try to offer a slightly more substantial comment than the others here so far.

This proposal is motivated by trying to get more applications running off the shelf or with minimal changes, which is a worthy goal. But to achieve that, it seems like the concept of a unikernel is growing more and more complexity. At some point, isn't it just Linux (or any other traditional kernel/OS) with a (slightly?) more modular design, statically linked applications, and no memory protection or scheduler (but it might even have that)?

Wasn't the point of a unikernel to be small and simple? Aren't we losing something by bringing the kitchen sink back (even if there's a compile time option to turn it off)?

And even once you have all that complexity, you still can't SSH in and diagnose problems, poke around, etc.

I like the idea of unikernels, but I feel like they still haven't found their calling.
And yet hackers steal these coins and seem to do alright, Tumblers seem to anonymize currency too.
It works for me https://www.mytweetalerts.com/ - is it still down?
I understand exactly what crypto-currencies are.

'Mining' does not give them 'legitimacy', it's just an odd by-product of how some of them are structured.

And frankly - that 'mining' consumers power and resources is a total waste. There could very well be other, less wasteful ways accomplish the same thing.

Certainly 'Kin' is not 'mined' - they just arbitrarily create and dump them as they please.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14177597
I somewhat disagree. Maybe there are few compiled applications that can use those resource, but it's easy to write code that uses all of them.

I have a 40 core CPU machine with a GTX 1080 Ti GPU. I run deep learning models with 90% GPU utilization and those 40 cores are barely used.

I would love to have 3 more GPUs to run in parallel to test different neural network architectures. Sometimes I'll run a CPU script at the same that processes machine learning data that uses all 40 cores.

I would use 4000 CPU cores and 10 GPUs in a machine if I could get them and I don't even do machine learning full time. I'm personally happy to see this trend of more core counts.
A supermarket or an existing TV channel is not a big gamble. Big gamble is things like pouring a few billion into self driving cars or building a space station...
I was the wrong age and wrong musical taste, so the first time I even heard of Cat Stevens was in relation to his support of the Khomeini fatwa against Rushdie. It appears he tried to walk it back somewhat, but the first statement is pretty clear and difficult to misinterpret:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Stevens%27_comments_abou...
You freeze. It sucks that it's the only option, but it's the only option right now.

The only way someone can open a new bank account, credit card or loan in your name under the freeze is if they A) have the credit-bureau-specific PIN to lift the freeze, or B) the account was somehow opened without doing any kind of credit check.
Amazon's not quite so bad on the Roku players and provides a good way to handle someone saying: "Lets watch movie X" that's not on Netflix.

It should also be noted that Roku offers a top level search function that will locate a movie in whatever service it's available.
Ask HN: Desktop or SaaS for a low-maintenance product?
I've read what I could find about this, including patio11's excellent blog post. A SaaS product makes licensing and version/upgrade issues irrelevant. However, you can offer a better desktop experience for many focused tools. And you can sell a desktop product with a simple download website and set up a bug tracker, which you have to run for the SaaS product too

As a source of passive income, I'm attracted to selling desktop software (standalone or browser extension) because I don't want to have to worry about uptime/my provider's uptime and hosting costs, I'd rather be running on the customer's hardware. Am I thinking about this the right way? Everything I read says desktop software is dead, but people seem happy to pay for it still.
> it's that they can't remember the character at all

I can guarantee you that each of those students would recognise the character if they saw it, they just can't generate it correctly from scratch.
Thank you. Developers closer to customers can easily fix problems that are generating many of the customer service calls. It also enables them to spot post deployment bugs quickly and keep on top of newly released code.
Sling is as close as you can get to this I think..
I leave my house unlocked. If not, everyone around knows where the key is.

Of course, this isn't something I suggest you do. It's certainly not practical for most people. I mention it only to show that there are varied security needs. On this particular subject, my credit has been frozen since the OPM breech.
Selecting appropriate data structures and algorithms for a problem is not optimization. It's one of the basic skills and responsibilities of a programmer. That's why the bulk of the first volume of Knuth's _The Art of Computer Programming_ is about data structures.
SPUs – Specialized Processing Units
A for loop is a fold over the local context and the index
I'd like to see the proportions of college-educated folks that could write it before and after the advent of the internet/commonly-used chinese keyboarding; were people better at it before the era of 'select the desired character from a list'?
Resource scheduling, CSP (Constraint Satisfaction programming)

CSP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_satisfaction_proble...

Scheduling (production processes):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduling_(production_process...

Scheduling (computing):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduling_(computing)

... To an OS, a process thread has a priority and sometimes a CPU affinity.
No it's the founders of the SPAC (Chamath et. al) get 20% of the SPAC, which will then be diluted once they merge with the target startup.

I do think you do raise a fair question of what stake Chamath et. al should get for sourcing a deal. 20% is definitely high, and I think a typical SPAC is something like 5% sourcing stake for the owners.
Tea leaf paradox
and funding all those road-building, social security, university research, school funding, post-disaster management, public transportation, space programs, etc.

I highly doubt the logic of the gov't is "oh let's get more fiat money so that we can start more wars". The wars are probably first in the causality chain, if anything.

Governments have started pointless, costly wars long before they could print unbacked money
Hi, long-time drop tower experimenter here :-) One very good reason to choose a drop tower over the vomit comet is microgravity quality, i.e. residual acceleration and vibrations. The drop tower provides roughly 10^{-6} g, which is a few orders of magnitude better than zero-g aircraft. Another is easy accessibility. You can work on your apparatus until ~2 hours before doing a drop, and you have electronic and mechanical workshops on premises.

Regarding acceleration and deceleration, it's not as bad as it sounds/looks. Most off the shelf component will easily survive, provided you fastened them well enough. Rule of thumb: If it survives shipping by parcel service, it will survive the tower ;-)
Was there a book or something you read?
Yeah, I found their article from links here so I reached out to them via email right after posting it here. According to a later email, they independently found my HN above post a bit later.

Looks like the embedded version on their page is missing about 1m30s of the interview, though.
Depends what you mean. b2b customers can be difficult in many of the same ways consumers can.
Or, you know, whether he has returned or not (and dismissed his old beliefs or got over them), is orthogonal to whether he has the courage (or even the will) to apologize.

He can return, but don't feel comfortable to apologizing.

He can return, but feel like that's all behind and no apology is necessary, or that that was done by a different person.

And several other possible cases -- a lot of which don't leave out the possibility of having regretted it.

Like we can regret something in private and internally, the same holds true for famous people, artists etc. They are not moral playthings that the public has some right to demand of them public repentance and submission outside their creative roles.
If I wanted to build something like this myself, are the motherboards fairly commodity? Or do you get into bizarre non-ATX custom form factors with bespoke cases and PSUs to match?

I've built plenty of gaming rigs, but have never been interested in this world until recently... and would appreciate any insight :)
This is an interesting perspective. For a few years, I've worked as a volunteer to process authors' PDF files for some larger conferences to place on our open access site. My job is to add a conference banner to the top of the first page, add PDF metadata, and re-stamp the page numbers at the bottom.

Having a dedicated editor would definitely improve the quality of the results. You wouldn't believe what authors do to their PDF files before submission. I've seen papers that center an 8x11" copy of their paper in the middle of an A4 canvas. I've seen papers where all the pages are just giant bitmaps that show the paper (presumably to avoid plagiarism). I've seen papers that have incorrectly-embedded fonts, so after our pipeline, we didn't notice that all the text in figures was replaced by Chinese characters (sorry!). I've seen papers that have permuted font maps, so even though the paper looks correct on the screen, the letters on the OCR layer don't match what you see, making the work impossible to find on Google.

Not to complain against the authors. We all have to break out our LaTeX tricks minutes before the submission deadline to fix that weird compile bug. My point is that it's important to have _some_ oversight. It's not enough to just zip up all the PDF files and call that "open access."
"Reducing the friction of financial transactions definitely creates value."

Crypto-currencies are entirely unecessary for this.

I pay most of my bills 'digitally' with 0% transaction charge.

'Friction' is ultimately derived from 'regulation' - which is a necessary condition when dealing with real money across an economy.

One could argue there is 'too much regulation' - that said, without it, the economy would crash instantly due to mass fraud, corruption, embezzlement, tax avoidance etc. etc..

Irony: the moment 'Bitcoin' is important enough to be considered a 'real currency' by governments - 'poof' it's under regulation and loses a great deal of it's value in this area.

The 'solution' to e-currency is not Bitcoin, it has too many downsides for practical purposes. It's a great intellectual exercise, and something good may come of it, but 'it' is not the solution.
This is possible enough that anyone putting a significant amount of money in crypto is playing with seriously dangerous fire.

On the other hand, the fall of one cryptocurrency to scammers doesn't mean all of them are destined to pan out the same way. This article doesn't really offer any evidence for that extrapolation, either.
Apparently application support is implemented via the SSG API. It doesn't look like it's a public API; I can't find any documentation anywhere.
Yeah, that’s the problem when we start arguing with analogies. Things can get derailed easily. Mea culpa.
> Now, when the company controlling the upstream project is chafging for the same functionality your patches provide...

It's important to correct this statement, which is either disingenuous or just incorrect.

Light Code Labs is not charging its users for the functionality of the Caddy server. They are charging its users to provide pre-compiled binaries with optional customization in the form of a selection of plugins and server types.

Don't conflate binaries distributed under EULA via the build server at caddyserver.com with the actual functionality of the (still 100% free) software. You're welcome to (not) contribute and (not) benefit, at your leisure.

As the actual post linked by OP states, the maintainers tried support contracts. Nobody bought them, so it wasn't sustainable. Their options were to look for other solutions or stop maintaining the project. You may or may not prefer that they abandoned it instead, but they made a choice.
Hi, drop tower user here :-) Three drops per day is due to 20 min preparation, 90 min evacuation, 30 min to refill with dried air, 20 min recovery. The is indeed long, which was not anticipate when the tower was first built, this the lack of automatic recover systems. Also, many experiments need to repair/change stuff in their apparatus between drops.
They clearly limit users at every turn that could lead to the user leaving their platforms. Especially on iOS.

I'm so happy they weren't able to do the same thing to PCs! If they had their way, the Macintosh OS would have been your only graphical/WIMP OS.
I've used and written a ton of bots that read the screen, sometimes it's the best option.
Born 1948, so he was 18 or 19.

Stones' first album was 1964; Jagger and Richards were 20 or 21, born in `43.
How did you not have a passport when you first moved to Canada? How did you get into the country?
Hey, that's my experiment! :-) So great to see that here on HN.
That is interesting! Thanks! They seem to just be running the vm on PIC, though, not a straight compile. I wonder how well that works out in terms of resource utilization.
Having a remote execution exploit shouldn't mean keys to the kingdom. I find it hard to believe that this company whose whole business is electronic didn't adapt it's technology stack to remedy this type of attack limiting the scope of a data leak. I wouldn't be surprised if struts has another exploit of similar magnitude, what then?

They might as well be running their business on a cluster of tomcat servers sitting atop sqlite.

Hopefully they don't recover from this - they should not have the data they posses if they cannot mitigate risk.
My understanding is that there's 3 configurations

Single motor, non-P: 1 large motor in the rear.

Dual motor, non-P: 2 small motors in front/rear with front motor geared for cruising, rear for accel.

Dual motor, Performance: 1 small motor in front geared for cruising, one large motor in the rear.

There's really no reason to have a front motor only. It's done in ICE cars to save cost/complexity since the engine is up front. With how the center of gravity shifts during accel you want the drive wheels to be on the rear since they have better traction.

Same reason in reverse you have large disk brakes on the front wheels and drum in the rear.
You're confusing 'economic stimulation' with 'net value creation'.

A lot of money can change hands, and a lot of people can 'do stuff' with nobody being better off.

Take for example how the GDP is measured: the total value of 'everything produced and sold' PLUS government spending.

Get that: it does not matter how the government spends - it counts towards GDP.

A government could borrow $1 Billion dollars - and literally burn it - but the 'GDP' would be +$1B Billion that year. That doesn't mean $1B in economic value created ... it just a number on a page.
> With intimidation the words are a non issue, it's just vocalized intention. With verbal harassment the words are all that matter, there is no intention.

What is it about harassment that bothers people? Why don’t people like being subject to sexual harassment?
Prohibition hasn't ever worked and will never work... it just makes criminals rich. It's an addiction that needs comprehensive, overlapping cessation programs.
Google are a Private company... doing what a private company wants to do. To compare Gab to Twitter.. is laughable frankly. So im not sure how the "blocking a rival" aspect is going to be legally entertained. But, keep the laughing going at least.
They're building something similar in Hannover: https://www.hitec.uni-hannover.de/einsteinelevator.html
C# is one of the few ones to have value types, but yeah in general they really suck for controlling memory access patterns and layout.
I have a z820 32 cores, 128GB of RAM, 3 nVidia GeForce GT 710 cards, and 3 x 5TB drives. You're not missing much with the z640. I have a z620 as well. The z620 just has 2 fewer PCI-E slots. The difference is the same for the z840 and z640.
It’s basically linear as long as CPU can feed the GPU with data. That’s because there’s no cross-GPU communication during the expensive part of the computation (ie forward and backward pass of a neural network). You shove data in, GPU computes gradient, you apply weight updates and redistribute new weights (which are usually not that large). Running the same workload on even the highest end general purpose CPU is glacial compared to even a modestly priced Pascal GPU. That said, there is a limitation: you can’t really have more than 16GB per GPU today, no matter how much you pay, and GPUs can’t do branchy workloads like SQL, compression, etc.
Unikernels remind me a lot of old applications distributed on floppy disks. The OS/application division is mostly absent and there's potential for real innovation by moving OS-like behaviour into the application - e.g. integrating the garbage collector with the code for swapping.
Password Cracking Manual: Hash Crack v2.0
What exactly are these machines used for?
For something at this level of sophistication, you'd typically use an integrated case/cooling/motherboard combination from a company like SuperMicro. You could always buy a board and mate it up with another case, it will likely be a SuperMicro board...
Correct, that's the main problem there. Demanding experiments are even carried out when the astronauts are sleeping, they also tend to vibrate ;-)
As someone who has also worked primarily B2B or at least B2(Small Busines) in the technical arena...

In these situations I'd like to remind you that the person you are talking to very likely may be copping that abuse from their customers or managers, and most don't pass it on. So try to help them out, they're literally making your job less miserable :)
Ditto, but with manipulating the game directly either through memory reading/writing, dll injection or packet sniffing.

Can you give some examples where screen reading was more effective?
CAD, 3D workloads, 4K/8K video editing, stuff like that. They're great for running dozens of VMs especially if you're running with SSDs and a non-integrated RAID card. The integrated RAID chip on the z820/z620 is horrible.
No, I'm pointing out how this does in fact cause net value creation. Sure, when somebody mines Bitcoin, the dollar value of the Bitcoin is purely on paper. When they send dollars to chip manufacturers to buy mining hardware, the movement of dollars from one bank account to another is also purely on paper. But when people respond to the movement of those dollars by building more advanced chip factories, that is indeed net value creation.
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Farewell, Devil's Advocate