skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Online movie services are a disappointment because the selection is terrible.

Go to IMDB.com. Pick a random movie. Click on the director to see more movies by him or her. Choose one. Click the lead actor to see more movies with him or her. Choose one. Click the studio to see more movies by them. Choose one.

Why can't I do this with any streaming service?

There's no decent search and filter ability because there's not enough selection to support it. The interfaces are all geared toward suggesting what you might like, not letting you search for what you know you want, or filter out what you know you don't.

Want to see only Best Picture winners? Only 5-star PG movies? Only detective films from before 1970? Nope. Sorry, not enough selection. Maybe you'd like this new drama we just made?

Technically, we could have a service with every movie ever made. But we don't, for stupid business reasons.

If we ever get a service with a decent selection, it won't be possible for it to have 50% original content because it would take a hundred years of solid filming to get there.
Because they can get more money faster by selling the mining units. Mining is not a guaranteed return but selling a unit is. Plus large scale mining requires a large capital risk (electricity), that is compounded with the large capital investment into the hardware.

Plus if they have significant BTC reserves (I believe they do) then selling mining equipment strengthens the BTC network and improves the value, maybe, of their current holdings.
> Everything I've heard and read is that it's used only at the end of the season, and just before harvest.

Naturally. You'd kill your crop off entirely if you did it any sooner. At the end of the season you don't care about killing the crop. In fact, it is desirable.

> No idea why glysophates would be used as a desiccant over other dedicated products...

And often other products are preferred. However, especially in the case of beans I grow, it's common to have secondary growth. In this case, you really do want to kill the plant off completely to ensure it stops producing to allow harvest to begin. It turns out that roundup is really good at killing plants!

> I suspect that large companies have little motivation to ensure food is clean and healthy in the same manner as a small farm does.

Margins are tight no matter how large your farm is. I have no idea why a farm of any size of would haphazardly use glyphosate? It is not free, and the cost of apply it certainly isn't either. Application is quite expensive. Just from an economic perspective alone, the idea that large farms would randomly douse their field in roundup makes no sense. It is already a struggle to make money from wheat in this current market.

I can imagine in some climates that wheat suffers from not dying off fast enough, similar to the beans I mentioned before, and glyphosate is used in those circumstances. However, I see nothing to suggest this scenario is common.

Even if, for argument's sake, we say that it is common: Why does your friend only react to glyphosate in wheat but not other food products?
It translates to a maximum cost per hash calculation, which becomes a minimum level of energy efficiency.
Vitalik Buterin[1] last week brainstormed a proposed development, fundraising and stewardship structure combining elements of a DAO[2] and ICO called a DAICO[3]. People are still debating and considering whether this is a true improvement. The structure outlined in the parent comment is similar to the DAICO model proposed by Vitalik.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalik_Buterin

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organ...

[3] https://ethresear.ch/t/explanation-of-daicos/465
That is a different issue. That's probably because of the A/B system that Pixels use. Lineage hasn't implemented that for the original Pixel either. That is not a limitation to modding per se. The real limitations to porting software, once you get beyond the bootloader, are always blobs, free drivers, kernel updates etc. At least with Pixels, they use treble. So you should be able to build AOSP with their provided blobs without too much trouble.
This sounds like Vitaliks DAICO model.
A TLS server without mutual auth doesn't need to do any online X509 processing, and only a tiny amount of ASN.1 (parsing the DH share, which is easy). It just serves certs, without parsing them.

Mutual auth increases the TCB by a lot, the Kolmogorov complexity increases by several orders of magnitude.
This is already the de facto case with Jihan. The threat is enough.
What about something like folding@home?
I assume the story is more complex than the one-liner from the FAQ, but I agree.
Coinbase probably banned him.
Wouldn't the difficult per block rise, making it the same current usage as before?
Yeah - that "first mover advantage" can be lucrative though.

Simplistically they're betting on:

(cost to you of mining a bitcoin)-(cost to everybody else of mining a bitcoin) * (time it takes to reach equilibrium)

being a very big number...
This is not necessarily a move against renewables as a whole.

>"The duties are lower than the 35 percent rate the U.S. International Trade Commission recommended in October after finding that imported panels were harming American manufacturers. The idea behind the tariffs is to raise the costs of cheap imports, particularly from Asia, and level the playing field for those who manufacture the parts domestically."

This is largely in support of American manufacturing. Of course it will harm the solar industry through increased prices, but Trump here is balancing an interest in solar with an interest in American industry.
How do you define a whitelist? A list of items, that, if matched, are allowed?

That regex will only positively "match" non-facebook items, and will only block facebook if implemented in a whitelist.

I'm just playing the straight man to your joke. Of course it's functionally a blacklist: That's what you asked for.
if we use even 1% of all computing power that is currently being used for internet memes, what can it be used to accomplished?
Diversification of assets is a real thing at that scale. They don't sell everything, but a balanced approach from conservative (selling mining equipment) to aggressive (mining as much BTC as possible.... and some other political stuff I won't get into) is how Bitmain runs their business. It's smart. You want to balance your ranges.
A lot of TV shows and movies are now only available on Hulu. I've started subscribing, and am seriously considering dumping Netflix.
Momma needs a new pair of shoes.
(Off-topic for OP, on-topic for the above interesting comment..)

I've looked at the windowing options on a typical oscilloscope. (The Tektronix MSO 3014 is the one we happen to use in our lab.) Hanning window, Hamming window, Blackman-Harris, etc.

I'm wondering how much of the off-frequency noise in a typical signal is due to the discontinuity at the end/beginning of the fragment of the signal captured by the scope.

If it turns out that the discontinuity is the dominant source, there may be a straightforward way to avoid it.

A way to eliminate the discontinuity is to capture the data from the scope, transfer it to a computer, and trim the file so that it is a multiple of the fundamental frequency in length.

Then, use a mixed-radix FFT algorithm on the resulting file.

(It may be necessary to add or subtract a few lines from the file to ensure that the length of the file does not have large prime factors. Mixed-radix FFT is quadratic in the largest prime factor of the size of the input.)

Is this common practice? Or, are there reasons other than masking the effect of the boundary discontinuity that people typically use windowing functions?
*staph infection
It's worse than that. Studio's are simply declining to license their stuff to Netflix for streaming at all. Losing Disney was incredibly telling because their catalog is so big and diverse I can't imagine that Netflix wasn't willing to write a blank check to ensure they didn't lose access to that content. The children's movies alone would be worth the cost.
Take out the “anonymous” part and it’s pretty much correct. Trustless value transfer is very powerful.

Bitcoin hasn’t been “deanonymized”. It’s never been anonymous. Some of its value actually comes from its extreme transparency.

That said, privacy is important when it comes to money and there are various ways people implement privacy. Both on top of bitcoin and outside of bitcoin.

I don’t know what 51% attack has to do with anonymity though.
Our body functions predominantly on ATP, not on glucose or fructose or fat or protein. ATP gets generated from those other macromolecules in pretty complicated biochemistry. You're definitely right that thermodynamics governs everything, but it governs it at the ATP level and not at the macronutrient level. Those additional layers of abstraction distort the whole calories in-calories out math.

Eating the "right" thing is more important than eating the "right" number. Consider eating 800 calories of protein versus 800 calories of alcohol (also technically a macronutrient). You're going to metabolize each differently, and you'll probably feel better eating the former than the latter. This is obviously an extreme example, but the point is that things that you eat affect your body in ways beyond that magic calorie number.
Some folks who knew more than you and I seemed to think there was potential for a nuclear disaster.

> In 2011, Lt. Jack Revelle, the bomb disposal expert responsible for disarming the device, claimed "we came damn close" to a nuclear detonation that would have completely changed much of eastern North Carolina

> In a now-declassified 1969 report, entitled "Goldsboro Revisited", written by Parker F. Jones, a supervisor of nuclear safety at Sandia National Laboratories, Jones said that "one simple, dynamo-technology, low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe", and concluded that "The MK 39 Mod 2 bomb did not possess adequate safety for the airborne alert role in the B-52".
Sadly the US only has two political parties so none of that even remotely matters.

Amusing how a country with a thousand different religious denominations only has two political opponents isn't it?
It seems like you're responding to a different argument u/danudey isn't making.

Their point seems more about people getting too caught up in "disruption for disruption's sake".

To a certain degree, watching the evolution of cryptocurrency is like watching techies reinvent banking, one scam or lost transaction at a time.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely see value of many blockchain-related innovations. Distributed ledgers. Decentralized transactions. Smart contracts for IoT.

But, I've also met many folks who are more enamored with the concept of "disrupting banking" without spending much time understanding the what and why of the disruption.
Not OP but that seems more useful. Even after digging for examples to prove a point, it's telling that this is all you can come up with.
Customization != "plenty of poorly designed tweaks".

I was replying to the parent using the word "disaster"
Thanks. I took a year of CS ten years ago and haven't had to do statically typed development of any size since then - certainly not developing libraries.

So essentially, containers and function overloading is damned near impossible. Got it.
There's no other way to learn than to play the game. You should expect to try, try, and try again. Really try to win on every attempt but be happily surprised when you do.

Relevant PG essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/bronze.html
There's a story just like this in the Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, I believe...
Sounds similar to what Europe did. Europe added a 47% anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariff on Chinese solar panels years ago because Chinese manufacturers were selling them below cost. Many commentators have pointed out China aggressively subsidized their solar industry in an effort to starve foreign competition and dominate the global market. Looking back it seems like their effort has been rather successful. Two-thirds of the world's solar panel production capacity is now controlled by China.
Because at the end of the day, they still work and truly do help a vast number of people.
ETH is going PoS soon enough, the other altcoins drive GPU mining significantly as well. Particularly the CryptoNight coins (Monero, Electroneum, etc) for the AMD market, and Equihash coins (Zcash, primarily) for Nvidia cards.
Where is the source for how many wafers nvidia buys? That's usually confidential information.
These are real, but they're not really get out of jail free cards. More like get out of a speeding ticket or get out of running a red light cards. Another thing that works is to be a nurse or fireman.
So Bitmain is ordering 16 nm ASICs from TSMC but what they're selling you is last-generation... 16 nm ASICs.
Graph databases for managing corporate intellectual resources
"The great object of an incorporation is to bestow the character and properties of individuality on a collective and changing body of men." - chief justice Marshall

a few of these decisions to be aware of:

The Rev John Bracken v. The Visitors of Wm & Mary College (7 Va. 573 -- 1790 Supreme Court of Virginia) established that a corporation had the right to reorganize itself, ie, that the people working together for a common cause could hire+fire just like they would if there was a single owner

Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward (17 U.S. 518 -- 1819) established that groups of people could enter into contracts and that they'd be enforceable just as contracts with a "natural person".

Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1886) established that the 14th amendment (due process) applied to groups of people organized under a common cause, and not just to individuals. This is followed up in Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining Co. v. Pennsylvania – 125 U.S. 181 (1888) which rather explicitly states "corporations are merely associations of individuals united for a special purpose and permitted to do business under a particular name and have a succession of members without dissolution".

United States v. Auto Workers, 352 U.S. 567 (1957) upheld the ban on corporate campaign funding, but as is so eloquently noted in the dissent, "associations of manufacturers, retail and wholesale trade groups, consumers' leagues, farmers' unions, religious groups, and every other association representing a segment of American life and taking an active part in our political campaigns and discussions" should have "all channels of communication be open to them during every election, that no point of view be restrained or barred, and that the people have access to the views of every group in the community."

Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce (1990) and McConnell v. Federal Election Commission (2003) extended the restriction on campaign funding to also cover advocacy, limiting the speech that could be undertaken by groups of people pooling funds together.

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 844 (2010) overturned the Austin and McConnell decisions. Justice Kennedy: "wealthy individuals and unincorporated associations can spend unlimited amounts .... Yet [under the Austin decision] certain disfavored associations of citizens — those that have taken on the corporate form — are penalized for engaging in the same political speech .... When Government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This is unlawful."
Eventually. But newer hardware will tend to be the most efficient component of the hashrate and push out older hardware by generating more hashes per unit of electricity (hence the CPU->GPU->ASIC progression).
I just want to call out something with onnx. It will be slated to improve this year but be very careful what you try to do with it. A lot of basic things don't work yet.

See:
http://pytorch.org/docs/0.4.0/onnx.html

The other frameworks are using (in my opinion) slightly misleading language as to how "ready" it is. onnx to Caffe2 is facebook's use case so I could see that being supported fine. It's hard to go much beyond that though.

Support for onnx will be bottlenecked by what pytorch can export right now. The file format just hit 1.0, but it will take some time for the ecosystem around it (including the export) to mature.

Disclaimer: I am a framework vendor
who has spent the last few months messing with it for end users writing model import

for tensorflow's file format as well.
From analog to digital: A history of mechanical counters
Anything that mentions bitcoin mining gets people worked up and negative for some reason. More demand for compute is a good thing long-term. More demand for video cards is great for all parallel computing long-term, hopefully someone besides NVIDIA seriously moves into the space.
Maybe. The lead time on this stuff is not insignificant. It's not that simple. Bitmain/Jihan understand that; they take a varied approach.
They really work and/or are the best/only thing that works for some people?
You can easily be forced to enter your password while you are in the ‘constitution free zone’ though.
> nervous in interviews, or underlying general issues such as anxiety, or just being a very quiet person?

Yes, all three. The nervousness and anxiety are especially heightened during interviews, but I don't experience either on the job. Does that make me not a culture fit?
IDK, they're still actively supporting the LLVM backend for Myricom's LANai chips, despite Myricom being sold off a few years ago.

And the NICs don't really need custom high speed RF, the foundry has a SERDES block that'll work just fine for connecting to a phy.
Why not target oil/coal/all energy sources to remove the obvious bias?
Bitcoin is (most likely) not a security. It's a commodity. Securities are typically assets that derive their value from a contractual claim (such as ownership rights to a company), which is not the case with Bitcoin. When you own Bitcoin, you just possess Bitcoin, not any kind of contract claim on some other asset. Bitcoin is more like gold and other commodities in this regard.

An analysis of this topic: https://www.bu.edu/jostl/files/2016/01/21.1_Alberts_Final_we...

Some crypto offerings (ICOs) might be securities depending on what's promised when purchased. If the creator of a coin advertises their ICO as an investment opportunity, where the buyers can expect to see gains from their investment, due to the labor of others, especially when there's no established market for the coin, then that ICO may be a security.
> Intel spends billions subsidizing non-competitive products in order to try to build market share all the time.

The concept of market share does not apply to EMIB. It's an internal implementation detail, and Intel gains nothing from using EMIB in one of their own products over a cheaper solution that would still result in the end product being an Intel-branded part.

The only motivation that Intel could possibly have to use EMIB as any kind of loss-leader would be to entice third-party foundry customers to use Intel for the sake of EMIB. But attracting foundry customers is clearly not a priority for Intel, and Intel's primary goal with EMIB is to produce Intel products that may incorporate some third-party silicon, not to produce silicon to be incorporated into third-party products.
They could stop running as Republican candidates. Just an idea.
I can easily program in C#, Java, C, C++, Swift, Python, etc, etc. There are subtle differences, sure, but generally the differences are minor. If they have difference in one area, they have plenty of similarities in others.

If these are flavors of ice cream, they're all pretty similar and taste good. Where is Powershell in this? It's certainly not vanilla or chocolate... it's more like pepperoni. It's like C# and Perl had a really ugly baby. Even simple things like using -eq and -ne for comparisons seems 40 years out of date.
U.S. Imposes Trade Tariffs, Signaling Tougher Line on China
Two of the best ISPs in my area here in Montana are Montana owned. One is even a co-op. I don't think it would be too painful to have Charter or Century Link leave the state.
Nan Goldin to the rescue! Brilliant! The Sacklers fancy themselves as philanthropists for the arts. For an artist to bite the hand that feeds them is usually suicide, but not for Nan. Nan's name is made. And heroin was a constant backdrop. The Sacklers made her whether they wanted her or not.
More than 10% of $3.7B raised in ICOs has been stolen:Ernst and Young
Actually, this isn't what the article is about at all, though I can see how you would go this direction from the title alone.

The article discusses academic labs as well as biotech companies openly hiring people from all over the world, and publishing their findings in journals. It talks about curing diseases, drug discovery, the lack of availability in China of some medications, and the career incentives for taking your biologist career to China. These are researchers publishing findings that everyone can read (modulo paywalls from some scientific publishers).

What this article is about: potentially taking a research job in China as a biologist (as a reader of Nature).

What this article is not about at all: shadowy military labs working on weapons.

Excerpt: "Just a decade ago, when China-born scientists with overseas experience began returning to the country, lured by their homeland’s fast growth and growing financial means, they found a drug industry dominated by generics. Undeterred, they got busy building the infrastructure for an industry capable of drug discovery and development, buoyed by substantial government support and a thriving economy."
One of the Oxfam reports [1] states »The 1,810 dollar billionaires on the 2016 Forbes list, 89% of whom are men, own $6.5 trillion – as much wealth as the bottom 70% of humanity«. Let's assume they accumulated all this wealth in just 10 years, how much better off could everyone have been if we evenly spread the money instead of putting it into the pockets of just 1,810 people? If we spread it across all 7.6 billion people over 10 years everyone would receive $85.25 per year or $7.12 per month or $0.23 per day.

So while the rich are really rich they are also very few and in consequence spreading the wealth among the many poor has a much smaller impact than many expect without doing the math. I am not saying that it would have no impact, it could probably lift the about 20% of the world population still living in extreme poverty - $1.90 or less per day - above the extreme poverty line if spread among them but it certainly wouldn't make everyone on Earth rich.

If you do the math for other scenarios, for example calculate how much better of all the employees of a company could be if the top executives would just receive average wages, you almost always get similar results. That still doesn't mean that I am okay with such situations, far from. I think more equality would be a good thing on its own even if the difference for most people would be relatively small.

[1] https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/an-economy...