skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it was Noded 0.18.0 [1] (maybe 17) which reminded me of the notion of distributed money as "ethical" money.

What's nice about BTC (it appears to me) is that it's the largest platform with the most buy-in & mindshare. If that changes we'll have a different set of options available to us. Until then, it's the best option that the planetary civilization has to constrain a set of powerful actors who appear to be above reproach by law for their morally deficit behavior (historically, and presently).

1 - https://noded.org/podcast/noded-0180-Q-A/
Obviously Germany should sue Obama and a group of his accomplices.

[added] I see double, down-voting standards. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

We all agree that criminals should be charged, and that someone who organizes and benefits from criminal activity is criminal too.

As America charges GRU agents, and thus targets their boss Putin, the same should be done for known actions by NSA agents, and their boss Obama at the time.
You'd have to pretty majorly change the US Constitution before that is even remotely legal.
I tend to like this idea as well, but struggle with how to make it privacy conscious in a way that satisfies everyone.

As an example, I toss around with the idea of "localized recognition" a la I upload a contact and his/her photo, and therefore my AR tool can recognize the contact image using ML, but it's not uploaded to any central server in any meaningful way (outside of maybe certain metadata to update the underlying ML models.) But even then, some might find that creepy...
I live in Seattle. There's a famous story about how we ended up with half of our streets running along one grid that was N,S,E,W and another grid that was aligned with the water front. As they built the city, these two patterns merged to create a total fuster cluck.

I am extremely confident that the graph for Seattle is incorrect.
Ebay did something similar to me,account banned with no reason given.
I was selling some old Alix computers and I believe the ban was because I put something in the listing about using them for vpn's to hide or change your location.
I've been there, about 3 years I was sooo down, which was while I co-founded a company. So there was this day when I didn't show up in the office with a cheesy excuse - which was not my style at all. One of my co-founders said then a week later we wants to stop the venture. I wanted to continue but actually this was the best thing ever. I should have stopped all that crap a year ago.

Before that stupid job my situation wasn't perfect but I was getting along. This has put me back a lot, both personally and professionally.

I strongly hint you to re-think your whole situation. Maybe you can take a longer time off and spend that time alone. Also hearing that you work at a trading company, those aren't exactly the most empathizing types of people.

I assume you have the qualifications to find a new job easily, maybe not such a unique one but still.

Don't be stupid and go with the head through the wall.
No, thank you :)
Corporations are amoral. All of their actions are self-serving and should be viewed as such. While a particular action (such as this one) may be good for consumers, this is merely a side effect and not the intention.
I wish we as an industry would agree on an icon standard. I noticed SourceTree for MacOS looks for `icon.png/jpg/gif` in the root folder of a project.

https://i.imgur.com/9MGwVv4.png

I wish github, gitlab, this and other repo related software displayed those by default. Less work, more fun
Maybe look for McCarthy's (Oregon single malt in the "light" islay style), if you are looking for another interesting single malt made outside of scotland.
Sounds like someone saw Antman last weekend.
Detaining immigrant kids is now a billion-dollar industry
Excellent advice. This is pretty much exactly the list I used to pull myself out of depression the last time
> it shows it to be spectrometrically, molecularly, and even atomically identical in every way

The problem with that kind of statement is that you vastly overestimate the analytical capabilities that we have. Yeah, with infinite resources we can probably pretty well separate and understand every component of a good wine or Whisky, but that's not something that simple to do, and is ripe with incertitude with each measurement.
> Expect some countries to start charging US IC operators.

Start?

It's hardly as if US intelligence officers have never previously been charged by foreign governments.
LOL The night of the election, I put cat food in two bowls labeled "trump" and "clinton." The cat ate out of the trump bowl first.

My cat was never was a politician, never interviewed politicians, never administered a poll, never ran a campaign. And yet he accurately predicted the results of the last US presidential election, while nearly all news outlets, professional polls, and political "experts" failed to do so.
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Its actually not that complicated. Don't use plastic.
Something akin to that, yes.
Now it's free. Use your chance :)
My favorite euphemism for those tasks is "shaving the yak".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving
Author here: I opened an issue to track this request and remind myself to do this: https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang/issues/189
Oh come on. The Russian election interference story is a long list of accusations without any supportive evidence. The entire narrative is no different than McCarythyism we saw in the 50s.

It’s unbelievable how many Americans simply accept what they’re told. Especially after being lied to about Iraq and NSA spying.

As an aside, if you believe in freedom of the press, you should support Wikileaks and demand Julian be treated fairly.
This is correct. Or was, until article 1 section 8 and the 14th amendment were reinterpreted to mean the 10th amendment de facto obsolete.

Which is crazy btw. I hear a lot of people saying "I'm not a tenther". Like, oh really, I didn't know I could own slaves again just by being "not a thirteenther"

Humans are weird.
For me, it's two main reasons: 1) Generating and storing massive amounts of pre-computed permutations of the same data based on how I'll read it with easy linear growth by adding servers and 2) Transparent multi-master reads/writes providing easy HA failover. Note, not all NoSQL options offer this. If existing free relational DBs had these options easy and out of the box, I would use them instead.

I just need a ton of data, often redundant, that I never delete, that supports distributed writes and reads (ACID not required). The things I use Cassandra for would require huge Postgres servers and custom sharding/partitioning setups and Citus HA and all sorts of other things.
Um, no, they'll be quite happy that the garbage has been centralized in one place.
You live in Center City. The rest of Philadelphia has a very organic layout. Can you get to Frankford & Castor without directions? Germantown & Chelten? Anywhere in NE Philly?
As a European living in a large-ish American city, it's very entertaining to me to listen endlessly to Americans complain how "bad traffic has become lately with all these people moving in!"

They want:

1. Large, sparsely populated suburbs, away from everything.
2. Cars to drive long-distances from their suburbs to "the things we want to actually go to when not sleeping".
3. No heavy traffic, please!

Good luck achieving all 3!

And yeah, public transport sucks here. For obvious reasons - nobody can design effective public transport when the average commute from someone's house to their work is fifteen miles one-way and there's no population density to speak of to make it cost-effective.

I consider myself lucky that I can just walk to a nice grocery store and don't have to get in a car to go buy some milk.
I had a disupute with AirBnB long time ago (You can find it in my history because I posted about it here). They had a "sign up a friend" promotion and I liked the service so much that I recommended it to my parents. They used it and liked it too... but I didn't get my promotional credit.

When I emailed them they were adamant the conditions were not met. They then changed the terms in the email to something new... luckily their own website was still active and represented EXACTLY what I had originally stated. I finally got a very patronizing email from support.

Won't use AirBnB again. Plenty of other services.
so 99% of ICO isn't a scam or never deliver? are you involved or invested in crypto or ico?
There's that inflation is a tax meme again. Nobody forces you to hold any asset with inflation with the exception of a yearly conversion into local currency for tax payment. The fact that you need USD to pay for everything else too is purely due to free market economics.
Czar?
how will that help me?
I have no idea what I am talking about, but I imagine you can exaggerate the returns and downplay the costs on an operation like bitcoin mining to squeeze in your dirty money. Like they would with any cash heavy business where it is hard to determine the actual costs and revenue.
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Nice! I have fond memories of studying the mechanics of futexes when PREEMPT_RT was under heavy development.

It's been a long time since I thought about the kernel futex implementation, but IIRC, one of the most interesting aspects was that the kernel would actually navigate a linked list that existed entirely in userspace. I believe this was called, or related to, robust futexes [0].

[0]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt
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I agree with your premises, but there's no reason to think that an action can't be pro-consumer + pro-ecosystem + pro-company all at the same time.
...and then we have the issues of “non-standard” accents. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sAz_UvnUeuU
you may enjoy this one: https://www.amazon.com/New-Thing-Silicon-Valley-Story/dp/039...
Parent comment adds no value, sarcasm/snarky attitude is against HN guidelines.

Per the article, the current administration recognizes that the USA needs to catch up on quantum tech research, given, for instance, recent Chinese breakthroughs.
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> At trial, prosecutors must introduce credible evidence that is sufficient to prove each defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, to the unanimous satisfaction of a jury of twelve citizens.

> This case was investigated with the help of the FBI’s cyber teams in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and San Francisco and the National Security Division.

Assuming this never goes to trial, could the DOJ ever be compelled to release the evidence used to attribute the defendants? Or will it remain "pending arraignment" indefinitely?

I'd love to see an in-depth technical analysis of how they were able to substantiate these allegations
Are they really only taking this stand because Amazon is looking to get a government contract for its Rekognition software, and Microsoft is trying to deter that?
This is written in the most painfully annoying style possible.
True, this advice is very smart.

May I ask how you came up with that?
They're not the only ones. T-Mobile does something similar.
interesting about the math integration with tensors and differential forms. gonna have to read the linked paper.
If you are able to safely buy expensive things there are definitely faster / more profitable ways to turn it into cash than mining bitcoin.
Yes, for torture [1], assassination [2], rendition [3], and war crimes [4][5]. Never merely for propaganda.

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/04/14/spain-to-indict-the-bus...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/05/cia-long-his...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/world/europe/05italy.html

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/nov/15/us-army-and-cia-...

[5] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/12/0...
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None of this helps the average worker who keeps his savings in a bank account which pays well below the rate of inflation.
And given those extreme resources I am curious whether there is more or less detail in regards to the US-persons side of this investigation.
An important part of futexes, which the article mentions only in passing, is that the kernel will also check a condition atomically with the wait operation; if the condition isn't satisfied the wait will not be performed. This avoids races between a thread that unlocks the mutex right after another thread has invoked the system call.

Effectively, inside the kernel the algorithm is

lock wait queue
if (*var == val)
add myself to wait queue
unlock wait queue
wait until queue wakes me up
else
unlock wait queue
If it never goes to trial? The only hope is filing a FOIA request, which will probably be denied for 20-50 years.
Halving is scheduled for 2020. Miners probably have lots of dormant equipment they already purchased and are gradually turning on. They must increase hashpower if they want to maintain the same return, but it's in their best interest not to do it all at once to keep difficulty low for as long as possible. Price is probably not a big factor in the short term.
You don't need to admit that you own the hashing equipment you bought with dirty money. You might have gotten lucky.
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I would also say "strict" ACID is become just another marketing term. I think what is more important is evaluating a databases support of different consistency and isolation levels. As well what level of availability do they support with these transaction guarantees? Do they support fail over to an active replica on the fly with no downtime? Are minority replicas available during network partition?
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Paternity fraud could be solved easily by mandatory paternity tests upon birth.
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I'm not crikli, but we have similar tastes! Talisker is my go to dram.

Try Bruichladdich Islay Barley. It's heavy on the saltwater characteristic that Talisker and other Islays have but is overall a bit lighter in both color and taste. I don't recall which vintage I had, which supposedly makes a notable difference for this whisky.

Kilchoman is another Islay that I enjoy a lot.

If you want to delve further into the world of peat, checkout Ardbeg and Laphroaig 10. Laphroaig has other nice varieties like Quartercask and PX that aren't as peat-centric. Ardbeg also has a wide variety of offerings to explore.

Of course I would recommend trying before going in for a bottle on all of these since everyone has their own tastes!
> It’s never “fast enough.”

Actually that's not true. When PCIe 3.0 was introduced, it took quite some time before the (still marginal) performance improvements materialized. We're talking about a few percent at most in games and benchmarks (many are just neutral) between PCIe 2.0 and 3.0, simply because it's not a bottleneck. For not overly data-intensive GPGPU applications (e.g. video things) I reckon that's the case as well. Yes, sure, there are applications you can run on a GPU where PCIe is a bottleneck. PCIe bandwidth benchmarks, for example.

Don't expect PCIe 4.0 consumer-ish (i.e. what this is about) GPUs soon (2019 earliest). It's wholly unclear whether you'll see any performance improvements at all from that — just look at the bus utilization in games and benchmarks, you'll be hard pressed to see more than 10-20 % (which is precisely why running a GPU on a x8 interface (or 2.0) is not an issue).
Just wanted to give a +1 to Designing data intensive applications, it's really one of the best resources out there in terms of touching really most of the areas necessary for building out big data applications, where you can then know which areas you'd prefer to dive further into.
Yeah I don't know if there's all that many craft beers _in_ Oakland, but the state is just crawling with them.
Yes: enough for it to be bothersome. Different customer sites, different offices, different meeting rooms with differing AV connectivity, the occasional conference in venues with a range of connectivity. I commonly encounter HDMI, Mini DisplayPort, and DisplayPort cables. I still occasionally encounter DVI and even VGA. Obviously I don't expect support for all of those but HDMI and Mini DisplayPort are extremely common so it's wearing having to have at least two dongles all of the time[1]. It's just extra crap to get lost.

[1] I also have a Microsoft Surface Pro/SurfaceBook Pro (I still can't remember which is which) that's annoying in that it has a single Mini DisplayPort and no HDMI. Even more galling, the rather expensive dock which is a pain to carry around has two MiniDisplayPorts yet still lacks HDMI.
Sometimes you need those hacks. I'd rather have the flexibility...
a meteor could also hit your datacenter, neutrinos can fly through your RAM, a person with malicious intent could detonate an EMP next to your servers, etc etc etc.
https://get-green-now.com/environmental-impact-plastic-straw...

>And, as of early 2018, data from Ocean Conservancy’s TIDES system shows us that straws/stirrers are the 11th most found ocean trash in cleanups, making up about 3% of recovered trash.

Recovered trash is maybe be different than total trash?!
If the evidence used here was obtained via intelligence services partly through hacking, and there is no real "defense" to speak of, why should we take this to be valid? How can we be sure that elements of this evidence haven't been fabricated or tampered with?
It looks like they are charring the barrel

https://www.angelsenvy.com/guide/whiskey-history/why-charrin...

> People have suggested that the inside of barrels were originally burnt to remove the leftover flavors of goods previously stored within, which sounds reasonable enough ... So why do barrel coopers still char the interior? ... Charring the wood actually primes the wood, which impacts the spirit’s flavor in several important ways that have nothing to do with smokiness ... charring essentially opens the wood up, making it easier for bourbon to extract flavors.
:) This one actually personally bothers me too. I have a really hacky shell-out to kubectl because deployments aren't currently supported, so I definitely empathize here. That being said, Google doesn't currently maintain the Kubernetes provider for Terraform; it's entirely maintained by HashiCorp.
Alternative headline:
Teardown of USB fan reveals systems were engineered without taking into account the need for user-friendly security

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Can't have opsec if you don't know "op"(how a system operates and is meant to be operated) or or "sec".
It would have prevented this from happening.
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What's your daily driver/cheaper bottle of choice? You seem to have similar tastes to mine, personally I love Eagle Rare for the price point but would like to find some other good ones.
"things inimical to US interests" is a very euphemistic way of describing systematic executions of civilians and other ISIS warcrimes.

> ..you're paying a very selective kind of attention.

I think focusing on countries like Syria and Lybia while ignoring Saudi Arabia is the real instance of selective attention. I'm not the one ignoring an edge case that's inconvenient to our economy.

Antagonizing the Saudi government would not be nearly enough here. Economic sanctions would be a bare minimum.

I don't see how this is anything short of a scandal. And don't assume I'm implying that Republicans are innocent here.
How is bacon of a clearly delicious animal - I am from the Alps, but never tasted the specific animal due to it being protected, and rightly so - considered of "horrible taste"? I guess they - maybe - didn't have salt, but they still had smoke, and - you know - sun.
With a couple of hundred dollars you can already open a brokerage account and invest in pretty much anything.
I went to a "hot" new restaurant recently...

It was busy alright.

The owner was running around like a mad person furiously cleaning tables.

I enjoyed my meal, the service was great, but as we were leaving I was disgusted to see the owner (who was cleaning tables, mind you) cough into her hand and then use that same hand to wipe down a table.

I noticed her voice sounded a bit off as well.

Anyways sure enough, the next day, I got sick.

When I told my friends I was considering leaving a 1 star review for that restaurant as a result... they were dumfounded... how could I possibly... you pariah you!

I was flabbergasted.

This restaurant owner came into her own restaurant knowing she was sick, and was publicly cleaning tables with dirty hands that she was coughing into... and I was the one getting pushback for wanting to leave a 1 star review as a result.

I left the review, the owner apologized and essentially admitted that she had come into work sick.

But I still feel weird about the whole ordeal.

What's the point of a review system if you are pressured to always be positive? No matter the circumstances?
You guys are both right. You're saying "crap work" and "load of crap" figuratively, by my wife deals with it literally! She has a masters degree in marketing but rather run her own business than work for a boss. It's a dog kennel and three times a day she walks around the property poop-scooping. Her business is her passion, but it comes with some crap work. She's very happy.
#MeToo is a hashtag women are encouraged to use as a way to share personal stories of sexual violence though. I’m not seeing the equivalent here.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/07/is...
I believe what we spanner calls 'external consistency' we call strict serializability. Read-write transactions in FaunaDB are strictly serializable, whereas reads default to serializable. This allows us to serve reads independently from the closest region to the client, cutting down on latency in geo-distributed clusters.

This is a bit weaker than external consistency or strict serializability; Peter Bailis has a good writeup on the meaning of serializability vs strict serializability here: http://www.bailis.org/blog/linearizability-versus-serializab...
Getting pretty sick of this strawman. Nobody's ever suggesting getting rid of zoning rules that keep polluting factories and similar buildings away from residential areas.

Like, this is very explicit in the article for this thread even, and somehow it still comes up.
I guess it depends on what you mean by "hashing equipment"

For example, if you go to Ritchie Street in Chennai, India there are plenty of stores that will sell you a top of the line GTX 1080 GPU for cash. No record of the transaction, and no taxes. A lot of stores will probably even accept USD.

You wouldn't be able to launder boatloads of cash this way, but with enough motivation you could do this on a regular basis and offset some cash.