skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is short-sighted.

Just like mining pool was not an expected event, humans will always figure out a hack to make more money where there's money. Especially when there is no legal implication for doing so.

These monero developers think they're doing good for their network, but all this is doing is weaken their network based on the limited knowledge they have about what's possible currently. I would even go further to say this is arrogance.

There are many ways to compromise a network, and the best way to protect against this is to strengthening it, instead of making foolish decisions based on some conspiracy theory that nobody has ever actually seen played out.

For example if someone figures out a way to bring together the coinhive JS mining library and a clever web exploit scheme to create a global ultimate monero mining worm, it could compromise the entire network and they will have no choice but to hard fork. The only way to protect against this sort of attack is to strengthen the network. And only then you deserve to worry about centralization.

I know this "miner centralization" is a controversial topic, but what I know for sure is that people are making decisions to permanently change protocols that are already working, in order to "fix" some hypothetical situation that may or may not happen.

If humans were so good at prediction, we would not have great depressions. The best way to deal with these issues is to solve them when they actually happen. I think this is the best for all cryptocurrencies because IF some sort of centralization actually does end up happening, people can fork and take a huge chunk of network with them always.

The people who think we can't recover from these hypothetical centralization are making some assumptions that are more likely to be false than true.
I completely agree, and Tedium is probably what you're looking for: https://tedium.co
> What is going to happen if iphones, ipads, etc don't sell as well?

Given their track record on privacy, particularly using it as a selling point, they'd be poisoning the well pretty badly if they did this. It's more likely they'd burn through their cash before even thinking of selling user data.

I can't see it happening on Tim Cook's watch or any of the existing executive team, but maybe an external hire.
Also maintenance and access. I once had an underground power line to my apartment building fail, and it took the better part of the day for them to repair it. They had to tear up the parking lot in the process.
Indeed, when I took German at the Goethe-Institut there was a fair amount of class-time reference to social problems in Germany (although perhaps with an optimistic spin, something like "Germany is great because Germans acknowledge important social problems and work to solve them¹"). I haven't experienced the Confucius Institute for comparison.

¹ It seemed like nearly every course had a dialogue on the theme "Was machen Sie für die Umwelt?" ('What do you do for the environment?').
Yep.. my Bose QC35's are amazing!
It's not really an Ad Blocker. It _does_ block ads in some cases, but that's not the point.

> While the result of this action is that Chrome users will not see ads on sites that consistently violate the Better Ads Standards, our goal is not to filter any ads at all but to improve the experience for all web users. As of February 12, 42% of sites which were failing the Better Ads Standards have resolved their issues and are now passing. This is the outcome we are were hoping for — that sites would take steps to fix intrusive ads experiences themselves and benefit all web users.

Source: https://blog.chromium.org/2018/02/how-chromes-ad-filtering-w...
His point wasn't that the US is worse than China, but that he lives in the US, and not China. As bad as china is, they are not likely to abduct him from the US. His own government however can do as they please.
Hello, Tensor Comprehensions absolutely use techniques that have been existing for a few years (Halide) or many decades (polyhedral model, Einstein notation(century old?), ...). The TCE is definitely also a motivational prior work which also uses the polyhedral model for optimizing loop nests. What we tried to achieve here, is a solid research tool to make a subset of underlying optimizations algorithms usable in practice by non-experts. One such optimization algorithm is described in our joint 2011 PoPL paper with authors of TCE (Loop transformations: convexity, pruning and optimization).
I'm not an expert, but I can guess it depends on the pole and how it's been treated. The company I called gave me a list of disclosures and guidelines for re-use. Maybe the poles you see haven't been treated with such-and-such chemicals.
This is incredibly long overdue and so important. My partners and I had designs on creating an ethical framework for technologists years ago but didn’t feel we had the platform or the reach to spread it. That’s no excuse for sitting Idly by and doing nothing but nonetheless, we are thrilled to see this now coming into play. I hope that the professors and professionals who are contemplating this will come together and form an alliance to create a national standard policy and statement around this.
Google is generally in control of it's "coalitions" and "alliances", and other members participate because they get blocked out if they don't. It is outright antitrust, they just painted it a little nicer color for us.

See also: The "Open" Handset "Alliance", an industry group of companies who want permission to use Google's apps, who Google will threaten to permanently ban if they dare ship a device without them: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/09/google-blocked-acers...
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"There is no way to create a support team that just handles the clueful people."

How about the option of paying $20 for a person at Google to read and respond to an email query? I would love that option and many other people would too, if the response was competent and reasonable.

They need to think of a way to have a xkcd tech support(https://xkcd.com/806/) like system. With all those "think out side the box" mindsets, someone should be able to come up with a workable solution.
(I'm a Googler, opinions are my own).

I'd say it's a lot more complicated than that.

If you are paying Google, you are definitely a customer. This would be anything from GSuite/cloud, Fi, Play store, Express, and many others. Google isn't just Ads, there are a lot of products and lot of teams that have different priorities and concerns.

Product teams here that you don't pay still care about their users. It's good to remember that there are still engineers behind these products. Many of them have similar opinions to those expressed on HN. When an unpopular decision is made, people are vocal with their concerns.
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An individual pole is relatively fragile indeed, but they're stringed together with steel cables, so the whole assembly is pretty solid.

Source: Worked as a phone technician a while ago, climbed in these poles for a living. I hated climbing in "service poles" (individual poles not connected to the steel cable, used in cases where a house is far from the street), they'd wobble like crazy.
> Huawei has not made strides in the U.S. market in large part because of government concerns that the Chinese government can use its smartphones and other products for intelligence gathering.

This is a great opportunity for Huawei to be the first major manufacturer to have a totally open-source stack. It would be immediately unimpeachable; a feature that no other smartphone manufacturer has.
Efs is such a tire fire that I would not recommend this in production. Usually when you get to the point where efs sounds like a good idea, you’ve probably gone wrong somewhere.
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Things like this are the reason that when a company starts spamming me, I update my account with the company's own information.

I started when no matter how many times I tried to unsubscribe, Walgreens kept using my phone number (which is supposed to be used to verify that the right person is getting the prescription) to spam me flu shot notices, auto-refill offers, and more. So now those robocalls go to Walgreens HQ.

Most companies list an email address and phone number for their PR departments on their web sites, so these are what I use since they're not hidden and go to real people.

I know this doesn't work for 2FA, but it's certainly satisfying in other scenarios.
We might be seeing the (slow) decline of Facebook, but in no way will we see the decline of social media that causes those bad effects.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/spy-fears-drive-us-offic...
Can't find the article but there was a warning not to discuss trade secrets or use the free wifi in conference rooms at Chinese-owned hotels in the US or Canada (which includes Starwood brands).
Before anyone starts talking about "hackers"... why sneak around when you can just own the building.
I am not mistaken. I do not live in China and have no plans to visit.

What can China do to someone a US citizen, living in the US, using a Huawei phone? Even if all telephone calls are monitored?

What can the US do to someone in the same situation?

Yes, others are in different circumstances and would make a different choice. Best of course would be to have no mass surveillance system.
Again, you should read the article. That isn't the scenario here at all.
You got that backwards. Hard forks make blocks that are not considered valid by previous versions. Soft forks make blocks that are considered valid by previous versions. A soft fork does stuff like e.g. changing Bitcoin blocks to be 512KB in size. In that case, all new blocks would still be seen as valid blocks for anyone still running the old version.
A colorful name for SPOF.
I do not but a number of my friends are using the Facebook Messenger, Facebook App and Whatsapp.
a lot of this probably is "if you see something useful to the motherland, let us know." Or being approached when the state agencies decide you're useful. Not everyone is a card-carrying spy.

It's perfectly normal to have loyalties to your own (or original) country, US and China aren't exactly like USA and England, relationship wise. Most US citizens would probably do the same in China.

Add the fact that China has a lot more leverage than a "normal" country when it comes to blackmailing families /friends.
Reposting my comment from the other thread:

I’ve always been suspicious of services that use SMS as the primary 2FA mechanism. TOTP is more secure and convenient, but it doesn’t allow the service to collect and extra datapoint. Using a communication channel intended for security as a method to boost falling engagement is as shady as it gets.

Matthew Green’s twitter thread[0] on this is an interesting read.

0: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/96376666146678784...
And the solar panels SpaceX uses are super cheap as they basically just use high-binned terestrial silicon solar cells from Sunpower, then integrate the panels themselves. Conventional space-rated cells are on the order of $100-1000/Watt, while terrestrial cells are less than $1/Watt. So even though terrestrial cells are only, say, 22% efficient vs 29% efficient and even though they degrade a bit faster in space (a lifetime of, say, 12 years vs 30 years), SpaceX can save a LOT of money and be able to throw around massive amounts of solar power on their satellites for a lot cheaper than their competitors who use typical space-rated components.

Do you have a link for that? I didn't find anything that looked relevant with a quick search for "spacex" "sunpower".

The high efficiency n-type silicon solar cells that SunPower produces are great for terrestrial use, but significantly less radiation-tolerant than the more common p-type. (Which are in turn far less radiation-tolerant than the compound semiconductors that are preferred for space solar cells nowadays.) In such a low orbit and with such a short lifetime, maybe that fast degradation is fine.
Curious to me that this reflects the change in distribution of wealth in general: More money, concentrated in fewer hands. Probably the same basic forces at play.
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Like pressure treated lumber, the chemicals used to make the poles less susceptible to bugs/rot/etc can be hazardous to people. Until a few years ago, arsenic was one of the components used -- in commercially available pressure treated lumber. I suspect the same chemical cocktail has been used in poles.

(edit -- add commercially available lumber clarification)
I remember those gpu wars. Also had a Voodoo 3000 card which was relatively cheap but still very fast. It took quite some time to get those games running optimally though. Playing Quake on it was fantastic.

Specs and scores were all they could talk about. I also remember that very nice parody: https://imgur.com/SLG6hp4
Fair point.

I think DJT has already desensitized me to details like capitalization and quoting.
> We do not have cryptographers familiar with this kind of thing, sadly.

Heh, free money incoming if you've got a crypto background. Cryptocurrency is a nested fractal of incompetence.
The gaming and relationship eras were separate.
Cool drawings! I love historical articles like this. Thanks for posting
> I really expected them to sell it to telemarketers.
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I doubt they'd sell it to telemarketers, but they'll use it for every dark pattern under the sun to increase your engagement. Frankly, your engagement is much more profitable to them than a one-time sale of an email list.
> And no, bloggers and other hobbyist cannot replace The New York Times.

...because?
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>Can you imagine if Russians were a another "race".

I was under the impression they are,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavs

http://www.slovio.com/slavic-gene/index.html
The technician part I was really mostly physics, so it was trivial. I see that on most practice exams (you do need to memorize some of the FCC stuff). When you go for general, that's where I felt that you needed more the memorization. (I tried to do a tech and general test in a single sitting. Missed the general by a point and never bothered going back for it)

- KK6AWC
Yep. He noted a headline in that day's paper

"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"

Source: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block (or you can verify on the blockchain as well)
Rex, the Qualcomm baseband os, is a binary blob that’s really annoying to reverse engineer and it shares a bus with the top-level os.
I'm not sure if the rules carve out an exemption for that.

If they don't, polluting the 2FA short code with other types of messages is doubly bad.
I won't defend their practices in most cases, changing the news feed to recent for example is far more work than it should be, and reverts randomly.

but this setting is Settings>Notifications it's not really buried.

I suppose I'm not upset at people who discovered the issue, but I am annoyed at mashable.com for making it a specifical when it shouldn't be, quoting a "a self-described technosociologist, professor at UNC" and their uninformed statements.
Good point, Tesla doesn't need to be the next Toyota to be successful. I still think they have a long way to go to even get into BMW range. 300000 cars takes BMW (including Brilliance) only 39 days.

100% agree what you said about sales, especially because of Tesla's own dealerships which let them avoid entrenched distribution channels.

Nice find about Rolls-Royce, by the way.
Great concept! good luck!
I was about to say the same -- great movie!
This reminded me of Jim Blinn's mathematics work (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO0t1IPk8KA). Very well done. Next up, the FFT :-)
Using 2FA number for ads? Are they doing it in Europe too? (Where there are harsh laws against using data for a purpose it wasn't collected for.)
>We fundamentally want Google Cloud to be the best place to do computing.

Lower. Network. Egress. Pricing. By. Two. Orders. Of. Magnitude.

Market rate is close to $1 per TB outbound. Your rate is $80-$120 per TB. That's just embarrassing.
Since "frequency" has a straightforward definition and a straightforward unit of measure, "pitch" is a fancier word reserved for alternate units (e.g. MIDI note numbers) or slightly modified concepts (e.g. pitch classes, not frequency classes).
Back around 2010 I worked for a company which built software to catalog residential distribution utility poles and the lines emanating from the poles to the houses.

To elaborate on a few of the statements from the post

Poles in my neighborhood tend to have consecutive numbers. I don't think this was carefully planned.

The sequential ordering of pole numbers is definitely planned, and fits in with a scheme developed back in the 60s-70s which made documenting the poles lifecycle in paper records much easier. The poles are numbered sequentially with prefix numbers generally indicating which substation district the pole belongs within. Distribution utilities think about their infrastructure as a network of substation circuits. You should be able to tell which circuit you are on based on the numbering on the pole.

There are three because that is one way to change the three-phase power to single-phase, something I wish I understood better. Truly, we live in an age of marvels.

Not all distribution systems use three phases, some use two, some use single. It all depends on where you are in the system and the general layout of the circuits within the distribution network. Also not all distribution is 7kV, some are 12kV, and some are 25kV. Again this all changes based on the properties of the system, and the qualities that are being optimized for by the power engineers.

I have tried to imagine what the number-burning device looks like, but I'm not at all sure. Is it like a heated printing press, or perhaps a sort of configurable branding iron?

This can be done a number of different ways, but one of the common ways is with a laser engraver. This is a fairly recent practice, so I am not as versed in the operational details as with traditional tagging. Another means of tagging which is not covered in the article is carving the numbers into the pole with a physical etcher, similar to a wood router.

Without the Internet I would just have to wonder what these were and what OSMOSE meant.

OSMOSE was at the time of my work in this field, the largest such company that dealt in the support and maintenance of residential utility poles. They have some very interesting proprietary mechanisms for managing inventories, and are generally a very smart group of people. My guess is that they collect all the inventory and survey maintenance of poles using mobile LiDAR and machine vision now, as that was what we were speaking to them about at the time.
They're treated with lots of preservatives. They're probably not all that dangerous in the short term (unless you eat some of the pitch), but it's annoying to deal with the potential long term safety. My scoutmaster worked for the power company, and I was going to ask him if we could have a couple of poles for my Eagle project, but after looking at what you had to do to reuse them I decided it was simply too much of a hassle.
....and this is why I don't ever want to own any car with a cellular radio and reflashable firmware. Why on earth would I want an automaker to have any control over my car after I've bought it, just because they happen to have manufactured it? No way. When the day comes that my only reasonable options are all vehicles manufactured after this noxious trend became universal, "how easy is it to disable the modem" will be one of my search criteria.
Cryptocurrency is a nested fractal of incompetence.

It works just fine if you substitute "Software development" for the 1st word.
Are Huawei and ZTE the only phone manufacturers from a non-SIGINT partner state? That doesn't seem correct. Hell, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_phone_makers_by... lists 29 different mobile phone makers in China, 2 of which are Huawei and ZTE, one of which is a subsidiary, leaving 26 independent manufacturers. But the government isn't telling us not to buy e.g. a Xiaomi phone.
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Huawei is a government sponsored entity. It will be natural for them to spy on our citizens and companies and steal their data for the betterment of China. We just have to be aware of that. Going into conspiracy theories won't help us much, we have to be clear-eyed.
The crucial part is the polyhedral optimizer which does indeed include several GPU-specific heuristics (multilevel parallelization, coalescing, etc) and specialization to tensor sizes. Evolutionary autotuner is used to tweak the parameters of the optimizer. As a result, TC can beat cublas and cudnn on certain networks; details in the report.
The supply of money = government debt + private bank credit. So if the government runs a budget surplus or private bank credit shrinks (more old debts are paid off than new debts are issued) then the supply of money shrinks. This happens in actual economies.
Interestingly I've read an anecdote that in the EU you can write them and say "Either delete my account or return my access to it.", and because they don't/can't delete accounts...
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> I'll eat my shoe if they signed up every single person who gave a 2FA phone number to this service.

Facebook doesn't have to sign up every 2FA person. It can pick a few hundred or thousand and see what happens. If engagement increases, then more 2FA people are brought on board.

If this isn't widespread, it may not be the user's fault. It may just be the camel's nose under the tent.
I am confused by this—-aren’t ASICs the costliest option until some (high) number are fabricated and put into use?

If FPGAs can implement these changes efficiently—more efficiently than cpu miners—-and be re-synthesized to implement further changes, doesn’t that advantage them?
> Right, you must have missed the part where I said

I saw that part. My post was responding to your statement where you incorrectly and condescendingly said that redundancy helps with ionizing radiation. It doesn't, as I outlined above.
You can download the tweets here:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/now-available-more...

Would make an interesting training set for machine learning.
Based on said leaks and a fact sheet from DNI Clapper himself, PRISM is simply an efficient warrant processing system based upon legal authority, nothing more. While troubling and worthy of debate, particularly regarding its 702 legal authority and targeting of Americans, it does not involve malware, surreptitious access to any of the involved tech companies, or an infestation of NSA tooling. The author of the PRISM slides was not careful to make this clear, which meant without context, everyone seemed to assume PRISM was a Room 641A situation. It's become clear that to be a 'partner' in PRISM simply means that the entity is capable of responding to warrants using the system, and citing PRISM as an example of compromise in the same vein as this Huawei announcement is disingenuous at best. Some companies built systems on their side to help (like Facebook), while Google delivered their PRISM data via SSH, for example; Twitter, interestingly, did not play ball.

Having responded to warrants before, I can tell you that it's a drawn out, paperwork-intensive process. Something like PRISM is actually net good for both parties, since governmental relationships are extremely human intensive on both sides at the scale of the large tech players. I can actually understand and sympathize with the USG designing a system to make it more efficient, though the leaks tell us it was flagrantly misused (primarily via NSLs, back door searches, and so on).
This happened to me a while back. So I disabled 2FA on Facebook.
What is an ocean but a multitude of drops?