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I've used PrivateInternetAccess, they are trustworthy, but US based so count on them rolling on you if someone has a good reason to be interested in you.
Yeh. The median salary for a machine learning engineer, which is definitely higher than what most companies are used to paying (even for software eng roles).

My argument is that machine learning also higher leverage than most roles. One algorithm written by one machine learner can generate a huge ROI. Think of an algorithm to predict loan defaults or customer churn for a bank. That algorithm in the hands of a great machine learner can generate a huge ROI.
> My whole point is that people use VPN for torrenting so Tor would not help and i2P neither.

My point was that I2P can help them since it's (a) torrent friendly, (b) has a bundled Torrent client (I2PSnark), (c) there are many eepsite torrent trackers such as: http://tracker2.postman.i2p
Much obliged. I will look to see if this can be extended to provide logical groups of users for the same resource.
Craig from Citus here. Thanks for the kind words Justin, as you mention there is some upfront work, but once it's in place it becomes fairly manageable.

We've been working to make that upfront work easier as well with libraries that allow things to be more drop-in (ActiveRecord-multi-tenant: https://github.com/citusdata/activerecord-multi-tenant and Django-multitenant: https://github.com/citusdata/django-multitenant)
Nitpick: Bitcoin, being a system where the history of all transactions is publicly available, is hardly an "anonymous" system. It is an additional level of separation from other forms of payment tagged with your credentials, and you can achieve anonymity if using it carefully, but it can't be treated by an anonymous option by default.
I've read many posts here on HN about how terrible working for Amazon is compared to other big tech companies, so this makes for some balance, at least.
...not suggesting this, but since you seem dissatisfied with the other options: direct action? If you're really concerned about uh, serving on the front of the liberation of earth.
> Then he calls the VPN company, and asks them to associate the IP and specific browser sessions with me.

That's when a good VPN provider will tell you to piss off.

Plus I doubt many VPNs that actually do logging will have the fingerprint data.
They've been recommended by a lot because they recently backed up their claims of no logging (FBI asked them for data, and they couldn't provide it). You'll see that they are ranked pretty high on this list, where there are some breakdowns. They are pretty cheap and popular too. Popular helps by making associations more difficult. That is seeing a VPN server accessed page X and that you were accessing the VPN server at said time. A college student was connected to a bomb threat by this method, being he was the only one on campus to be using TOR at the time the bomb threat was made (from TOR). You'll be fine with any VPN that is relatively popular and doesn't do any tracking.
at senior developer at a major company like amazon we're talking...what? At least $200-250k/year? Even in Seattle that doesn't trap you in working-poor conditions.
Anyone with half a brain knows that these purges are designed to advantage a side not protect the system. I read an article the other day that stated that some America's voting system had essentially been compromised on many levels. It made me think about why so many of our polls have, in the last few years, been so off the mark. Now I'm beginning to think it's not because the polling models suddenly don't work. It is quite possibly something more nefarious than that.
Aren't the Google and FB offices in Seattle relatively small, satellite offices?
How would you detect this kind of fraud? Historically, whenever states go about trying to verify their voter registration databases, they end up wiping out swaths of real, actual voters for various reasons, which usually makes it a non-starter.

I doubt it's very common in a fraud sense (though there are probably a lot of people who aren't supposed to be able to vote who end up voting), but either way, it's a difficult problem, probably impossible, to solve without impinging on the rights of the voting public. Voter ID laws disenfranchise people, sharing too much data with the feds has privacy risks, cleaning up the rolls inevitably affects legitimate voters...there's no good way to solve the problem.
My favorite is how MS started development of OS/2 2.0 and NT OS/2 around that time, and there was x86 segmentation back then but they decided not to use it for 32-bit.
It has had forks which have produced blocks which: (1) would not have been produced by any previous nodes in the network, and (2) forced the updated software to ignore the original majority chain. If you check the software, you'll see explicit checkpoints at which the client is told to ignore certain blocks (identified by their hash).

Breaking the ability of the network to follow a valid majority chain is breaking backward compatibility. It's disingenuous to claim otherwise simply because the forked version eventually ended up with the longest chain.
Thanks! I'll begin lurking
> pager culture where you're awoken in the middle of the night

For multinational corporations, this has never made sense to me. Why do we insist on relying groggy, "at the bottom of their performance curve" engineers to keep your system up, instead of someone in the middle of their work day?

IMO, if you're waking someone up in the middle of the night, something is horribly wrong, and it's not the issue you woke that person up for.
Thanks!

Yeah, I agree it's not a company. I simply find it's the most useful analogy because it was the closest frame of reference I had for making decisions at the time.

Many companies also deal with ex-employees escalating, saying they won't accept the termination, etc. They're treated as security issues and credible threats.

The difference is that companies generally have HR departments and security; I don't. :)
I’ve set up both pgbouncer and wal-e in the past, and they’re both worth it to have from effectively the very beginning.

But it leaves me wondering: is there any sort of packaging of Postgres and these “friends” into a single opinionated virtual appliance, such that I could just stick up a couple of VMs with the same image with different role tags, and get a good cluster with automatic transparent N:M proxying, automatic transparent backup-and-restore, etc?

In other words, is there a product that is to Postgres as Gitlab CE is to Github (or like Dokku is to Heroku): a “host it yourself, but easily, and starting from a scale of 1 with no overhead” equivalent of a SaaS service?
Yep, Nvidia is quoting 125 TFLOPs mixed precision on V100, boosted by Tensor Cores.

Vega 64 can in theory do 25 TFLOPs half precision.

But as you say there's a large price difference too.

For a market segment that needs 1-8 GPU rigs for ML on a low budget AMD could kill it if they invested in software support and kernel optimisation.

For servers and large scale training, unless AMD has some ML specialised cores in the pipeline, Nvidia Volta and Google TPUs have a serious lead.
I've made an user interface based on spheres turning like a carrousel (using mouse wheel). When you clicked on a sphere they'll all go to the center and then the next level of navigation/menu appears.

Pretty aww demo effects on the final client.

Strictly no interest on a daily basis use. The company I worked with finally removed it.

So my point is that, despite the fact that I really like what you did (and I do :-), reinventing navigation way is a pretty rash UX problem and must be apply in very specific places.

Good work anyway and thanks for sharing
This looks fantastic. I look forward to reading, and implementing my next special snowflake language -- with a real VM this time!
If nothing else you are voting with your wallet, and perhaps being a role model or peer pressure for others.
Other options available:

- CockroachDB 1.1

- AWS RDS Aurora PostgreSQL-compatibility

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15458900
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072861
People are forgetting that Steve Jobs was always about the tech and the marketing. In his mind the marketing and putting the customer first was every bit as important as the product. Apple really was a synergy of product and marketing from the get go.

A lot of work went into the notch, I doubt that Mr Ive et al. thought the marketing angle first but you are right, the biggest thing about the notch is people 'bikeshed' over it and talk about it. It gets noticed. And yes it does identify you as having the latest model. That takes you into the marketing that Apple is 50% about (with tech being the other 50% in how Steve Jobs did products).

Although we no longer have Steve Jobs at the helm his vision lives on in the team that he built.
If that fails the next step is to launch lawsuits against the voting rights act, and if even that fails then you claim fraud and refuse to recognize the validity of the election, as the Republican Party in Georgia did.
Well, sure. You don't bake a pie with a carving pumpkin. Normally, you use what is usually labeled a 'sugar pumpkin' in the produce market. They're smaller and, obviously, sweeter than a carving pumpkin. Carving pumpkins aren't good eats. Doesn't everyone know this already?
This whole thing feels like an advertisement. Why is it on HN?
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That’s a feature, not a bug.
Why wouldn't a seller offer a crap product for full price? What does it cost them to offer you a reject at full price?
You lose those with any VPN provider I've tried.
This is an action which legitimately needs to be done. I think the larger issue we need to fix is the partisan entrenchment that lets people justify this being done to further their own agendas.

Using targeted disenfranchisement to further your own political goals is quite clearly illegal, we just need to start sending people to jail over it instead of excusing it because the ends justify the means.
Let's take as a starting point this list of methods:

http://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/heritage-explains...

(I realize that's from the Heritage Foundation - I'm not particularly conservative - it's just the first decent list I came across while Googling.)

Let's take these 3:

"""
False registrations: Voting under fraudulent voter registrations that either use a phony name and a real or fake address or claim residence in a particular jurisdiction where the registered voter does not actually live and is not entitled to vote.

Duplicate voting: Registering in multiple locations and voting in the same election in more than one jurisdiction or state.

Fraudulent use of absentee ballots: Requesting absentee ballots and voting without the knowledge of the actual voter; or obtaining the absentee ballot from a voter and either filling it in directly and forging the voter’s signature or illegally telling the voter who to vote for.
"""

Ok. Pretend I am a hostile nation-state. I can find a list of registered voters online (from some hack, because in 2020 PII is everywhere). I identify a number of key districts in the upcoming US election, and the names of some individuals living in those districts. I acquire some mail-in ballots, and cast votes using those names and details (say, SSNs). I'll just ignore whether or not the person has already voted. (To summarize: my hypothetical attack uses methods (2) Duplicate voting and (3) Fraudulent use of absentee ballots above, not actually method (1) False registrations.)

Is that so hard to imagine doing? I don't think so: particularly not for a nation state.

"Voter fraud" can be when a particular person votes twice in an election -- that's possible but not worth the risk for the individual. In this scenario there's not much real risk to whoever is carrying out the attack.

It doesn't even really matter if you get "caught" (detected). (Getting "caught" (punished) is hard to imagine.) The goal is just to undermine the election. To win, all you have to do is throw the result into doubt.
I don't need it to run in a browser or PC, and it works on my phone since I have an iPhone. You needs may vary, in which case you might just stick to SMS which is cross-platform and lightweight.
This.

CF bottle cage for my bike? Sure ... I'll get CCCF (Cheap Chinese Carbon Fibre), CF bike frame? Hell no.
It doesn't get charged often because there are parties that fight tooth and nail to prevent the implementation of processes that would allow the detection of ineligible voters voting.

It is shown in every election cycle that there are cases of voters voting who should not be because of their citizenship or felon status or voting in multiple districts.

When you say that only 2 have been charged, why is that relevant? What number of people would be disenfranchised if the voting system required photo ID? And I mean people who literally cannot get a photo ID at all, not someone who has to pay $10 or who has to spend a few hours once every four to six years getting their ID renewed.
A video version: https://vimeo.com/137539070
In addition to other good answers, there is also the fact that verification doesn't necessarily have to be "deep": "shallow" verification of only some security properties can also be very useful. For example, it may be hard to verify the "correctness" of a web server since the specification of what a web server should do is quite complex.

But (for example, for a web server written in Ada or C) you can also do without a specification and just apply verification tools to only check things like "all memory accesses are valid", proving that you have no buffer overflows that would cause denial of service or security holes.

Of course someone still has to write the verification tool correctly to ensure that it actually gives the safety guarantees you want, but at least it's not you who has to worry about that ;-) And specifying the absence of buffer overflows is comparatively simple.
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To expand on this point, large-scale voter fraud in the United States means having confederates at multiple polling locations in multiple, independently-administered precincts, each with their own processes, in multiple, independently-governed states, each with their own rules. Getting caught at any of those stages means the plan is a bust. Oh, and you can't re-use a single confederate more than a handful of times.

If you're going to conduct voter fraud, the count is your target. At that stage, IDs are irrelevant. (Even then, there are multiple precincts in multiple states with lots of random, independent volunteers and elected representatives puttering about.)

Being skeptical is fine. Using skepticism of a low-probability unsubstantiated claim (voter fraud) to detract from a proven problem (voter suppression) is at best irrational.
Most countries have centralised voter registration. Often tied to ID and other registration systems.
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I'm still a loyal Amazon shopper but I've been victimized by this many times. The worst part is that some of the counterfeit items will actually cause property damage when they malfunction (chargers, batteries, etc.)

Others are so inexpensive that it's not really worth the hassle to return them.

Now I'm reluctant to order any electronics product that doesn't have at least 500 reviews, as the scammers have become good at getting 50-100 fake reviews for counterfeit items.

Amazon needs to step up and fully insure all purchases against counterfeiting. The worst part is that this kind of stuff is ammunition for the Trump supporter view that Amazon is doing harm to the American economy by promoting goods manufactured by cheap labor abroad.
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While informative, this post is extremely non-contentious, and i suspect on purpose. Much of what is said here can be said about most companies that are at scale. Probably by design b/c if his employer or manager found out about it, i am sure there would be backlash.
NordVPN works mostly reliably with Netflix.
Here's a question I've had for a while regarding trading systems in the cryptocurrency world --

What's the end goal? Would a perfect trading system fully automate the trading process to maximize returns, or is the goal to develop the best tool to assist a trader?

I'm curious what you, as someone in the field of developing these systems, see as the "ideal product".

As a follow up question, what would happen to a market that is 100% traded automatically (assuming thats possible and the end-goal) - would become stagnant?

Forgive my ignorance if any of this is obvious, my econ/trading knowledge is next to 0.
Yes. The optionality relative to rural america is excellent. The optionality relative to the bay area is very poor.
> How would you detect this kind of fraud?

Voter rolls are public. You can't see how someone voted, but you can see if they voted.
My 7+ also unlocks fast and reliably every time. I sometimes purposely use a different finger to make sure it still works.

I've tried the back of phone ones and they just do not work for me. For me, back of phone is a downgrade. I guess having both FaceId and back of phone would not impact me, but only going back of phone would have me sticking with the older phones as long as possible.
It took me years to find a VPN that accepted Monero. But I've been paying for Bitcoin priced VPNs using Monero through a service like Shapeshift or Changelly or XMR.to

I've been paying pretty much all bitcoin invoices that way for several years.

Blockchain sleuths would never be able to tell if a bitcoin transaction was just an exchange shuffling coins or if someone like me was actually on a different and opaque blockchain.
Yeah, will be interesting to see if they can bring the price of GPUs with tensor cores down, from what I've read it's too expensive to make them right now for consumer market.

BTW - do you happen to know what DL frameworks currently support mixed precision training with Volta tensor cores? Curious to see if AWS V100 instances can really do 120 TFLOPS as advertised. I think latest versions of CUDA/CuDNN support Volta now?
I'm pretty sure "they" in this case are the studios, not Apple, but yeah, this sucks. They want us to spend a lot of money on a movie we're going to watch once, or we have to wait weeks or even months to rent it for much cheaper.
How many platforms does C# run on, with runtimes available under which licenses, again?

EDIT: Not defending Slack's choice of JS, or the consequences of that choice on its memory footprint, CPU utilization, or excess consumption of my battery in any way, but it's not purely a matter of "which one is the most efficient/performant/whatever?".
Restating your argument: there have been cases in which patents of questionable quality have been granted which recognize questionable rights; there exist entities who act in bad faith to acquire patents for the purpose enforcing those questionable rights; therefore, all patents are of questionable quality in the possession of entities who act in bad faith to enforce questionable rights.

This is self-evidently fallacious reasoning. It also drops the context that tech companies in aggregate spend tens of billions of dollars per year on R&D, creating the incredible world of technology, industry, and human flourishing in which we live.
Is this like R's Shiny for Python?
> Most countries have centralised voter registration

Most democracies haven't lasted more than a century. De-centralisation is an annoying but core feature of American democracy. It's wise to be conservative when discussing its dismissal, particularly in respect of something as fundamental as voting.
I'm unable to see the charts:

Refused to display 'https://plot.ly/~mthwsjc/69.embed' in a frame because it set 'X-Frame-Options' to 'sameorigin'.
Mmmm, that's really vague though - what exactly feels out of place? The only applications I use on a daily basis that feel like they're "Mac" are Safari, Messages, Xcode, and I guess Finder... all of which are built by Apple. Maybe Paintcode counts too?

The rest of the apps I find myself using don't use those same UI/UX patterns/designs, and I don't think it matters that much: Photoshop, Terminal, Telegram, Bear, Fantastical... the list goes on. The applications that keep me coming back are the ones that are smooth and don't interrupt my train of thought (most everything here), or have some big use case (Photoshop) that keeps me coming back.

I'll also point out one more time that Telegram is what people bring up every time this discussion rolls around, so they're clearly doing something right and people must not think it looks _that_ out of place.

Hell, I'd argue that the consistency of UI/UX on Apple products matters more for the initial purchase and wow-factor than it does once a user has settled into their environment. Every application does not need to function and look exactly the same.

To be honest, this all feels like moving the goalposts, and is why I usually refrain from getting into these discussions.
Apparently the OLED display is a 1st generation(older) OLED from Samsung...It really felt to me they made a big deal just like they did with 4K on Apple TV.... same technology like the competition, one year later. The camera on Samsung seems to be better too. The only thing that keeps me on Apple ecosystem is iOS and MacOS...
But is Grandma really going to understand how to verify authenticity and/or why she should?
I am sort of a remote developer for Amazon.

I'm a 'deployment engineer' who travels most weeks to different fulfillment centers (warehouses) for work, and when I'm not traveling I'm usually writing code for my team.

Of course, by saying that I reveal the real flaw in my entire remote role: aren't I supposed to be working instead of posting comments on HN?
I heard they will actually cut your base pay if stock goes up “too much”. Is this true?
Just pulled up Activity Monitor - Slack + helpers are using over 1 GB while at rest.
You can combine Tor and a VPN though, though you'll want to rotate through VPNs to avoid timing attacks.

Use of one doesn't exclude another.
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I would trade. When it comes to searching for things in Google, it feels like the spammers won; there's just not much there that's both relevant and not trying to sell me something.

There's more information, but it's much harder to find anything, and outside of small communities, everyone writing interesting things has either stopped or has happily stepped into a walled garden and become undiscoverable.
Most don't page people at 1am for the initial page. People only get paged at 1am when the problem has been narrowed down to some specific software and all the people with expertise in that thing are in the same time zone.
I was there earlier this year.

The story is complex, but my understanding is that the main failure point was the local officials not wanting Arcosanti to exist and putting up regulatory barriers.

It's worth noting that Soleri ran the project as a benevolent dictator, and when he fell into the poor health of old age most decisions stopped. He's recently past and left behind a bit of a power vacuum and the other people involved are reorganizing to deal with that. Coming out the other side of that reorg is an opportunity for change and it's too early to assume Arcosanti will stay in it's current form.

They are basically blocked by money. If they could get enough money to pave the road to the property they could get building permits again. They need either a rich benefactor or a group of people interested in buying into the concept (and the leadership capacity to manage that).
Haven't you heard of startup weekend?

Please look it up:

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