skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"new techniques are evaluated against the state-of-the-art codec, for which the coding tools have been refined from decades of investment. It is then easy to drop the new technology as “not at-par.”

This seems to be quite a general technology problem that looks like it applies to car engines, batteries, computer memory and any other highly optimized mature technology. I wonder if there's some way to change incentives so others get a chance. It happens in evolution in nature too and it's sometimes solved by mass extinctions. Hopefully that's not the only way.
Yeah, this narrative has been around for a while and there have always been two major problems with it:

- If Bitfinex was buying Bitcoins on their own exchange with fake USD in order to push the price up, they wouldn't do so by printing Tether because USD on Bitfinex is not backed by Tether - it's supposed to be backed directly by USD in Bitfinex-owned bank accounts, with Tether only being minted as necessary to handle Tether withdrawals. (Someone even found externally-visible evidence that there wasn't enough Tether in existence to cover the Bitfinex USD balances - naturally, this was seen as further proof it was a scam.)

- During the period in question, it was Coinbase/GDAX which was pushing the price up, and that exchange never accepted Tether. The price of Bitcoin on Bitfinex and the other exchanges was pretty much always lower than GDAX, or to put this another way, Tether USD was worth more than its face value during the time when Bitfinex was supposedly printing it to push the Bitcoin price up. This is the exact opposite of what should have happened if they were doing so.

It looks, at a quick glance, like this still has the same problems.

Edit: this is more clever than the previous arguments, in that it also uses evidence from round-number trading biases and odd end-of-the-month behaviour of the kind you'd expect if Bitfinex had to make the Tether shortfall disappear for their monthly audit, and also examines outflows of Tether from Bitfinex to other exchanges. (The round-number stuff is less convincing since the divergence between exchanges and even between currencies on the same exchange was particularly bad around round numbers.)

They also attempted to test the hypothesis that the Tether printing was a reaction to demand by comparing the amount of printing with the Tether-USD price. Unfortunately, they used the price on the Kraken exchange which had almost no volume or market depth compared to the potential Bitfinex-Bitcoin-GDAX route. Basically, no-one actually used it, and so it didn't accurately represent how much it'd cost to actually exchange any substantial amount of Tether to USD or vice-versa. It's entirely unsurprising that it wasn't correlated with anything of note.
SourceClear acquired by Veracode
Constant 1 G acceleration requires three things:

1. An infinite power source

2. A reactionless drive

3. A spacecraft made of material so strong that it can survive collisions with rocky material at velocities very close to c. Or a Star Trek style deflector shield.

Warp drive is probably easier to achieve.

Detonating nukes behind your spaceship will never give you anything close to 1G constant acceleration over a long period of time.

Time dilation has some definite drawbacks as well. Say for example you have a very redundant ship that can repair damage from micrometeorite attacks in a few minutes. The hits are very rare, maybe once a year at most at normal velocity. But now you're traveling at a high fraction of C and you're hitting tens of fragments per second, and always at a high fraction of C. Your repair process is effectively working in slow motion and could very easily get overwhelmed. Without a sci-fi energy shield your spacecraft is ablated to death long before you get anywhere.
This reminds me of paying off debts using Bitcoin, where the dollars have to come from somewhere.
It doesn't, though.

As a thought experiment, what if the caps went away tomorrow? Is it possible that the network would become saturated? If so, that is to say the caps might be reasonable. If not, how do you know that's the case?

I'm not any happier with Comcast than anyone else; I recently moved from 1Gbps service to 250Mbps service with them, and I was always bumping up against the 'cap' on my 1Gbps service. I want a better provider. But nothing in the article proves that the caps are useless nor a money grab.
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There is merit to this reorg. Unfortch, we’re not the U.K. so we can’t just decide this overnight. It would be monumental and it would never happen.

The splitting and merging in some cases would make sense, but would only be successful if done organically via grass roots.
There is a basic epistemological flaw that goes on in the Fermi Paradox (and similar arguments): the argument rests on the idea that, given enough time, an event which has non-zero probability will eventually happen. The flaw is that there is no consideration of if enough time has actually passed, since the probabilities we talk about are often characterized on the level of "we don't conclusively know it to be impossible."

If you look at the statement you yourself make, it requires a lot of assumptions:

* Interstellar colonization is possible (this is explicitly taken as a hypothesis, though)

* The ability to colonize another star system is the ability to colonize a large number of star systems. This is to say, the social consequences of colonization are not going to grow larger with size. A possible counterfactual would be that large civilizations might put more energy into securing control of known systems rather than embarking on further colonization--and the anecdotal evidence from the history of Earth is that this is indeed the case.

* Colonization is a logistic process (which is probably what you really meant when you said exponential, but the difference is a technicality for this discussion). If interstellar travel is really as difficult as our knowledge of physics suggests it to be, then interstellar colonies are likely to develop as completely independent civilizations without maintaining strong ties to their parent motherlands, and subsequent colonization efforts are going to include attempts to "colonize" already-colonized systems and consequently logistic growth wouldn't be achieved.
> basically a cost-benefit calculation

Absolutely. There are some famously settled issues - don't write your own crypto, you'll screw it up, do write your own user tracking, third parties will inevitably farm data - but generally there's a decision to be made. And it's not the same answer for everybody; there's a reason Google and Facebook do in-house authentication services, which everyone else borrows.

I've seen the "containers let clueless people go live" claim before, but I'm not really convinced. Containerization offers most of its returns when we talk about scaling, rapid deployment, and multiple applications. If you just want to put up an insecure REST service with no authentication, it seems at least as easy to coax some .NET or Java servlet horror online without any containerization at all.

The examples in the article of containerized learning environments are a bit of a different case, granted. A space specifically designed to let stranger spin up new instances and run untrusted code would usually take a fair bit of thought, but containers have made it much easier to do without any foresight.
https://www.google.com/maps/search/therapist+near+me/

I'm really not kidding. The range of usefulness of therapists is so large that "any therapist is a good starting point" usually works. It's better when you can ask friends, but if you can't, any therapist will do.
We are truly in a wasteland of competition when Alphabet and Netflix are the underdogs.
In a strict technical view, that's correct. ETH is the continuation of the original coin, however, which most of the community (including the most important members/developers) decided to support.
See the T2 processor in iMac Pro, rumored to be coming to Macbooks.
I'm always surprised that this isn't more widely known. Why else would stores have rewards programs?
This is great! How would one locate such a service in another city?
I suppose at gigabit the pi might have some issues. Unfortunately, I don’t have this problem. I doubt Goldmont would break any sweat though. If you don’t want to jump all the way to Intel there’s always this: http://espressobin.net/
TLDR: One answer - if you're in a decent-sized city - is to look for people who have published on the particular issue you're having. My other piece of advice is : always set a time limit.

This is a difficult issue, for a few reasons. The stigma surrounding mental health means no-one (to a first order approximation) goes around raving about the really great therapist they found. This has a couple of consequences.

First, therapists don't specialise. They need to get clients, so they list themselves as being able to treat every mental health condition on the professional registers. Hence, look for people who publish.

Second, it's not hard for a mediocre-to-bad therapist to keep going and earn a living. There are no reputational consequences. Even the best therapists wont' succeed all the time, some people would recovered anyway, so it's easy for them to kid themselves that they are better than they are.

The other problem with mental health is that the incentives are backwards. Mental health professionals are paid by the hour, whether they help or not, and don't have any incentive to think about whether you would be better off trying someone else after all this time. And if you are depressed it's hard to get up the will to think about changing your therapist, so it's easy to let things drag on in the hope that they eventually work, wasting huge amounts of money and time. Hence, set a date at which, come what may, you will either stop or try a different one. Sooner than they want.
API Driven Development with Laravel and VueJS
Oh I am well aware of the difference. I meant what I said though. During a bull market it is smart to buy up the dips. During a bear market it is smart to sell the rallies.

For example last year there was a point during the bull market when the price dropped from $5k to $3k and that was one example of “when the price started to decline”.

Thanks for the story!
Yeah, that's the site that returned an intractable list of ~2500 options in NYC, and that caused me to shut down the last couple times I looked for help.
New York, fwiw. And yes, I'm functional in a "get out of bed every day and go to work and put on a good front" sense, and would prefer to avoid medication if possible.
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Too bad they didn't go with row types instead of structural sub-typing. Though that might not have matched with their goals of being able to type existing JavaScript. Not sure.
Ask HN: Experiences with running an Engineering Blog as a small company?
I work as a developer at a small, tech-company with about 15 engineers.

I really enjoy reading engineering blog posts by other (mostly way bigger) companies and was wondering whether it would make sense to start an engineering blog ourselves.

It could attract new developers who see that we do some cool stuff.
It could also help retain developers, because they can present the cool technical stuff they did to the world and are happy. That is at least how I would feel.

Of course we don't release cool new stuff all the time and everyone is busy, so I would expect maybe 2 or 3 articles per year.

Does anyone have good or bad experiences with this?

What would you as a developer think about an engineering blog by your employer?
There's decades of precedent on how to do utility regulation, and that is one of the models. (It's called the rate-of-return model.) It was used for telecom for a long time, but has lots of problems. On one hand, it can encourage gold plating (spending money on infrastructure that isn't helpful because there is a guaranteed return on capital investment). On the other hand, political pressure can drive the return rate below the optimal level.

Your post actually highlights the problem. What makes 10% the proper profit margin? BT OpenReach, the U.K.'s regulated infrastructure monopoly, has a profit margin of double that. That number becomes a political football, and the political result probably isn't what most people on HN would want. People are happy with 25 mbps DSL; they're not going to vote to raise Internet rates to drive returns high enough to incentivize investment in replacing everything with fiber. That's exactly what you see in other rate-regulated utilities. People don't vote to replace lead pipes that poison kids, because they would rather have cheaper water rates; they don't vote to replace sewers that leak raw sewage into rivers when it rains, because they'd rather have cheaper sewage fees.
There was, if anything, more search engine spam then. It's just that you got the tools to remove it yourself and then after 12-15 tries you got beautiful search results. Now they've gotten rid of that refinement process in favor of initial results that aren't spam but also aren't that exciting.
In some respects I think they've already paved the way. An adapter could be created to target canvas or WebGL. As for APIs like file system access, I don't think there's anything wrong with the JS web APIs as they exist today. I'd love to see Apple actually push ahead with the implementation of more of these APIs, as well as PWAs, etc. but I know it's not at all in their interest.
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Well, I worked with one of proprietary security tokens before. Nothing to be proud of, unpatched software/firmware bugs, zero responsibility of manufacturer and usability mess. The thing is, not only cryptography hardware and software itself should be safe, but whole system should be up-to date and have no weak links, which is hard in practice and few want to pay for it.

Makes me think if there is any incentive to do crypto properly or security theater will always prevail?
I'd say that's only mostly true - if you had a typo, and wrote "camelcase" instead of "camelCase" in just one place out of a hundred, you might not notice it, but it will compile, and not match a grep (though it will match nimgrep). This case could be solved by "grep -i" or equivalent, but not the camelcase vs. camel_case case.

This is not criticism; I prefer Nim's mostly-case-and-underscore-insensitive approach, but I think this is a pitfall that should be acknowledged and taken into account (which is quite easy to do given the included nimgrep).

Perhaps it makes sense to have an optional warning in case a name is inconsistently spelled inside the same compilation unit.
It's really helpful when you have many desperate systems which all hit the same API in different ways. We've built a more custom solution to hit some existing databases and this style of system will be reducing the need for as much custom c# code on each back end. It's also SUPER useful because it will auto-gen the types for our api calls and we no longer have to hand write them. I do see your point though, for existing apps which alreayd have the infrastructure in place this style of system is not as helpful, it's mostly geared at new development and common apis
Great resource: https://routersecurity.org/
A New Conservative Show Out of Silicon Valley
Ok bucko-

First of all, motors exist that can support more than 220 pounds, Mr. "Engineering Discussion". The conversation was absolutely not about engineering when I entered -- it was about how unhealthy anyone who weighed more than 220 pounds was -- implying they are not worth as much and/or don't deserve to have Segways. All of these sentiments were being upvoted, which means HN at large supports them.

This is bigotry, and you are even now supporting and defending it.

I'm not sure you understand how dog whistling works--the term isn't used to "rile up bigotry". In fact, it's used to call it out. You provided a classic example. You're more than happy to shit on "heavy" people, but you get upset when somebody exposes you as actually hating "fat" people. This is just like racists who openly hate on "immigrants" but will deny they have a problem with "mexicans" until they're blue in the face.

I never called anyone an idiot; how dare you lie about me. As for "direct insults", I'm not doing anything the rest of HN doesn't already do. For example, StavrosK and the guy who doesn't seem to understand resource sharing are both obliquely implying I'm an idiot quite overtly; you seem A-OK with that.

What's the source of the hypocrisy? Do you get something from bullying me, or have you somehow identified me as a low-status individual who it's ok to shit on?

I'm not interested in talking to you any further, you seem to have some moral superiority complex that results in you doing logical backflips to justify your behavior and vilify mine. I guess I'm not part of the popular crowd here -- but I'm not violating the guidelines any more than anyone else and I don't appreciate your abuse.
If you prefer your text as, you know, text, put TheOutline through Outline:

https://outline.com/5wP4eL
While not necessarily exploitable Ubiquiti ships known vulnerable packages. Let's not forget their u-boot fiasco and GPL violations.
Options can be used for speculation and to increase leverage. They can ALSO be used to reduce risk. It all depends on how you chose to use them. Both are common.
> Regular people don't even update their routers

I work on a product that gets connected to people's home wifi. In the last year we've had several with routers running WEP security.

WEP was superseded in 2003 by WPA, and deprecated in 2004!
I wish Win10 never happened, but:
How does your employer aquire hardware for win7? We have trouble buying Thinkpads that still run win7.

It was a very smart move of MS to kill newer chipsets :-(

If they hadn't done that, win10 would have completely tanked
> Landmark US Study!

> Just take our word for it, or else pay $60 for the report itself.

Can we please stop doing this shit?
Yeah, I immediately looked for a date on this - feels like "neural net generates ancient text using ancient tomes"
IMO, your GP is the place to start.

If you say "I'm struggling with X, what is the right type of provider for me", you'll probably have a productive conversation.
The problem isn't that it's unpopular, it doesn't seem (from the post) like you have some kind of underlying economic or financial principle supporting your argument.

* why would it have an inverse relationship with other assets? It's not a short. It's still valued based on purchase price vs sale price, adjusted for risk. If risk has risen and nothing has changed about purchase or sale price, why would it rise?

* if Bitcoin was at a market-clearing price before a downturn, and other assets are now much cheaper, why would BTC then be comparatively more attractive in terms of expected investment returns?
The bitcoin cash guys are tying to do that.

https://www.moneybutton.com
https://www.yours.org
Would be nice if there was a nationwide building code for cities which stipulates fiber optic to the premises with absolute minimum connection speeds of 1Gbps synchronous and ideally 10Gbps. Completely unrealistic but I can dream.
Professors have too much control over grad students and academic labs are too insulated from the greater institution. Profs have basically no oversight on how the treat and/or pay grad students. Any institution serious about tackling this and many other issues needs to reform the employment relationship with grad students. Grad student funding should not be coming from one professor's grant money, but the department.

Independence in scientific direction? Yes. Independence in personnel management? No.
Why link to a fork?
What this video (or even the paper) doesn't show is the large antenna arrays that are used to capture the heatmaps. A previous paper called "Capturing the human figure through a wall" [1] shows the type of antenna array used and in this paper they use two such antenna arrays to capture two planes to increase the accuracy.

[1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Capturing-the-human-fi...
Using a TPM for generic crypto operations is mostly outside of what they were designed to do. Real hardware TPMs tend to be very slow so they're not really useful for encrypting/decrypting network traffic, they're really supposed to be used to sign messages and verify checksums. They are also supposed to support full on trusted computing, but since it was designed by crypto nerds the trusted computing stuff is almost entirely useless. It completely blocks the CPU while running and is very slow so the practical use cases are very hard to find.
I think that’s because the web exists and is accessible on your phone. YC didn’t have to talk to Apple or Google for me to type this on my iPhone.
There are many ways that one can define a custom, narrow interface for a service, and automatically generate client code, server stub, and for many cases even database access codes. GraphQL is one of them, it may be one of the not-too-lame ones, but for most practical purposes, it doesn't seem to be clearly better than the average toolkit.
So now we're down to "I want to run a neural network exclusively in the browser" as the primary reason you'd want to use this.

OK, fine. That's a niche use-case for a domain where scale and performance matter so much that we're building specialized hardware to support it. For 99.99% of developers, they would be better advised to find another way to solve their problem using more conventional tools.

There was a guy who built a life-sized house out of Lego once. It was a cool trick, but the difference between him and "modern Javascript" developers is that he didn't try to make anyone live in the house.
While we've gone through some amount of publicly addressing this in industries like film, I suspect there are many industries where we're not introspective enough to even recognize there's a problem yet.

I worked in games for a while, and I'd not be surprised to see that industry have a #metoo moment sometime over the next few years. We're just starting to see individuals called out in some of the more progressive studios [1], I suspect this is just the tip of the iceberg.

[1]https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/yweqk5/harebrained-s...
Looks like you can download for free as a "guest" but you need to give them an email address (maybe get a throwaway).