skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, we went the slightly old-fashioned way where we found we could get higher quality production.
I wonder if there is any defense against adversaries that use computer vision and just digest the actual raw images and overlaying information, so there aren't any hooks into the software itself.
Please do! I'm brianna@stripe.com if you'd like to get in touch directly.
> we see that one of the main limits on Stripe's growth is the number of successful startups in the world. [...] If we can cheaply help increase that number, it makes a lot of business sense for us to do so.

This approach lends itself to spending on many cheap things which, e.g. in this case, might not even have quantifiable benefits.

I'll extend OP's curiosity and wonder how the team behind Stripe press plans on measuring the success of their initiative, and what milestone hits/misses are needed to determine the success or failure state of the project.

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Separately, my background includes vendor risk assessments. This is the kind of thing that makes me question long term investment in a platform. It's admittedly a lower risk than many technical findings, but it's not something to discount when evaluating the use of a startup for critical infrastructure (payment). Knowing Stripe's size, the various risks that PCI participants have to account for (and that's just PCI DSS specifically), and the trouble many larger organizations and startups have in meeting those obligations also makes me that much more likely to strictly score Stripe on the next vendor risk assessment when I see spend of this sort on ancillary/non-critical measures.

I'm sharing how I think because I'd be surprised if others in my field didn't think the same way.
I recommend Why the West Rules by Ian Morris.
He has various comparison of “The West” vs China from the dawn of civilisation.
That's been one strategy I've seen mentioned in regards to Shor's algorithm many times. Since there's the probability of an error, you still have to check it and rerun it a few times until you confirm the right answer.

That's still many times faster than you'd get conventionally, so it's a reasonable trade off.

But it doesn't address the possibility that you can't entangle enough qubits to begin with, or keep them stable long enough to actually perform the calculations, which is where the error correction stuff comes in. I don't know enough about the challenges there to comment on how many you'd need (though 1000:1 seems high to my naive intuition, i'd guess maybe 10-100 for magnitude myself).
Well, the money was illegal to begin with.
Interesting that they don't intend his tenure to be temporary.
Orthogonal to the main rescue, Musk's (now deleted) pedo tweet: https://imgur.com/5hz4nf6

And a great (and biased) comment on reddit: https://np.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8z2nl1/elon_musk_...
Also it had visible issues merging onto the highway and stopping in the middle of the street while turning.
I think the point that the comment you're replying to is trying to make is not that big complicated software engineering can be done in say, C with similar levels of productivity to say, Java.

He's instead saying that it's very much possible to build a language with a similar level of abstraction/ergonomics to say, Java, or Python, or C#, or whatever but with similar performance characteristics to a lower level language like C. And we are starting to see this - there are languages like Rust or D which are (at least to my eyes) much less arduous and foot-gun prone than languages like C or C++ while having similar (or better) performance.

Of course there's also Jai, but I think we should remain unbiased here :P

As an aside though - I think some of those orders of magnitude of performance gains could be had by just writing better code in your existing high level languages. (At least in my experience with enterprise software dev).
I really hope this isn’t really a cooling limitation but instead something that Apple can fix via a firmware update, otherwise it puts their hardware construction (that many consider a bastion of quality) into question.
The n-person subgame Nash equilibria come from simple environmental constraints - the sheer number of people in India or China and the number of available seats in your commuter subway. The cost of not cutting the line is proportional to the number of participants. I'd argue it's a very different experience in say, Newcastle, UK where trains are historically on time, predictable, not as crowded, as opposed to trains in China being unpredictable, late, etc.

And, re: culture, well game theory tells us that free-riding is a learned outcome of repeated games. Singapore gets its past learning from a hundred years of British colonialism.
If only they made "Blockchain-AI-Vegan-Mayo"...
Sadly no. I tried to find it.

There is a tool to build around that.
Perl6 goes far beyond regular expressions.

https://docs.perl6.org/language/grammar_tutorial

https://docs.perl6.org/language/grammars

Even with Perl5, if you're using too many regular expressions, you might want to check CPAN.

https://metacpan.org/search?p=1&q=parse&size=500 (over 4k results searching for "parse")

In particular, Parse::RecDescent, Parse::Yapp, Parse::Lex, Parse::Flex, Regexp::Common, Net::IP, NetPacket::IP, ... really most of the things you'd want to parse from Apache::ParseLog to Parse::DNS::Zone

The inclusion of (not so) regular expressions in a language doesn't mean one needs to abuse them.
And with a language that is not particularly fast. And with a GC that's way worse than what Go has.

Go would be fine for lots of game dev, imo.
It occurs to me that ASM.js (before WebAssembly) was full of jets. That is, they wrote weird idioms that the interpreter could understand and optimize, while technically keeping the semantics of the language itself (JavaScript). The most visible example was someVar|0, which was a kind of way to assert that the expression would be an integer. Not really a type declaration, since it didn't ensure someVar would be a number, only that the expression was integer.

In the examples though, clearly the goal is to have some provability in the core language, make that provability feasible with a small language, and keep that as the language becomes further optimized. It seems subtly different than an optimizing compiler.
Alzheimer's actually gets a lot of funding, but mostly for therapeutics, not diagnostics: it gets a lot of funding from NIH, and neurodegenerative disease treatments get the third or fourth most VC and big pharma funding (after cancer, rare disease and maybe infectious disease)

However none of the drugs really work, and ppl think one reason is bc patients are diagnosed too late

Diagnostics get very little funding in general, not just in Alzheimer's. Calling yourself a "diagnostics" company is a good way to get ignored by VCs. You have to do a lot of expensive studies to prove that they work, the bar is quite high to getting insurers to pay for them, and pricing power is low. Most insurers will only pay for a novel diagnostic if it saves them money. So you have high development cost and low profit potential
Just to be clear, these are experimental results that are statistically impossible assuming a classical physics. Are you actually worried that they are somehow studying the wrong self-evidently non-classical thing, or what?
Fricken Dyn... I pay them too... I'd move my DNS services to Google, but I'd have put them behind a load balancer... heh
Counterpoint: Pokemon Go is incredibly infuriating to play as a new player because of cheaters. People spoofing their location fill up gyms, making it extremely difficult to earn in-game currency. They can also prevent you from effectively raiding with members of your own team, if spoofers from another team vastly outnumber you (reducing the reward from the raid).

Not only is it not fun, it's discouraging. And it's one of the big things that led to me quitting the game.
Especially in 1970. That was a lot even for 1980.
MongoDB's defaults have no real authentication.
There is no such thing as a client in IPsec - only peers. Both peers must agree to the encryption and authentication parameters before the security association can form. Because of this it is crucial that you are able to adjust to match. Also, while modifying the encryption domain is probably not super likely, I don’t see a reason it shouldn’t be editable.
Musk apologists keep apologizing.
Thanks, I hadn't thought of using Dropbox as a file sync between different OSes on the same machine.
I'd imagine that periodically changing in-game assets to modify their appearance could act as deterrent.
Bluegrass musician here. Jerry Garcia was into bluegrass music and back then the only way for people on the West Coast to hear what East Coast musicians were up to was live tapes (albums being few and far between). So when the Dead took off, Jerry was all about enabling the tape trading because he knew what it meant to fans. (Source: Pete Wernick, conversation at last year's RockyGrass)
Comments like yours really piss me off. You have absolutely no self-awareness or empathy, and come off sounding like a know it all.

Yes, we all know that storing date/time data is hard; they should use a standard timezone (without DST), and use time-locales to localize the timestamps to the user. We get it.

The reason this knowledge is so well known is because previous programmers (without this helpful guidance) made many different technical decisions for many reasons, and learned the hard way. They then publicized their failures for our benefit.

What was the last technical decision you made that turned out to be the wrong one? Did you make the wrong decision maliciously? Or were you doing the best you could with the information available? Would you really find it helpful for somebody to come along a decade later with the attitude "these guys have no idea what they were doing, I learned about these antipatterns years ago!" (usually followed by "better rewrite everything")

I'll go out on a limb and say most people here haven't started from a single datacenter and grew to a global service. These engineers deserve the benefit of doubt unless and until more information is available. They certainly don't need armchair analysis from some randos on hackernews.

/rant
But Configurator .. is a GUI.
> with 25% of new software engineers coming from coding bootcamps with non-engineering backgrounds

This is unnecessarily elitist: I’ve seen no difference in security awareness based on anything other than specializing in security, and even then it can be surprisingly blinkered.
The tweaks don't always work without any issues: speakers make static or USB ports get disabled even with wireless mice, for example. Distros don't want to cause problems like this.
Overwatch changes the colors of its heatlh bars slightly every match so that aimbots can't lock on it

https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/6imjce/todays_pa...
Not a tornado, though.

> There are always unforeseen and unforeseeable risks associated with any location. You can mitigate them but you can't claim X number of 9s for a single physical datacenter.

What is X, here? I'm pretty sure I can claim 99% for a single datacenter.
Here's a handy link from the Quora article:

https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=Elon+m...

And from elsewhere: https://haselonapologizedyet.com/ (In my opinion, Musk absolutely needs to apologize, but I don't know if he ever will.)
I felt it was a reasonable and genuine evaluation by an interested party
Another unicorn willing to be a sellout to big companies.
There are many systems in which production requires the following of regulations but the purchasing and consumption does not, i.e. food.
Yeah, the reddit comment just links about 20 other incidents where Musk was a jerk on twitter.
I would posit what was meant here is conception, as in understanding and not procreation.

Unless your comment is just being facetious ?
As an American, I can assure you this is certainly not the case. We always go that extra mile for that special something that makes us shine. Don’t worry. You’re in good hands.
It would be for those physicians without crippling debt loads. So, no, for those whose medical degrees were issued in the last couple of decades, it isn't possible.
...what does any of that mean?
Presumably the board hopes he identifies/designates the successor to pursue a new golden age for TI.
3 tips to remain confident as a new developer from someone who’s been there
> Most generic companies make their profit off the first 6 months of exclusivity. The rest of the time they are barely breaking even (hence the drug shortages).

I read that it was due to factory outages and the government keeping tight control over production of controlled substances. The FDA actually forced Pfizer to give up their quota this year to other manufacturers because they didn't produce enough of it due to their factory outages. It seems more like a large business playing hardball with the government and insurers than a lack of profit.

Also, you need to provide proof of your assertion of generics barely breaking even. I just glanced at Mylan who sells generics. They bring in 2B a year in operating cash flow on 12B in revenue.
Could be as simple as having the user input any other drugs, foods, substances, etc. they are currently consuming and then checking for interactions on the back end. There are already many sites that do this.
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I’m not talking about your home computer. Obviously your home computer shouldn’t have ssh exposed to the world on any port. I’m talking about a server that needs to have ssh available.

And I would argue while all the options you bring up are good suggestions; 1) they aren’t alternatives to having ssh on a non standard port, they are additional methods and 2) they will do nothing against system level exploits.

If you leave ssh on a standard port, when (not if) an exploit is released you are in a race to patch your system and at a disadvantage. And for what?

Other services are on standard ports for good reasons. There’s not a lot of good reasons to leave ssh on 22. Mostly just laziness.
IPSec provides unique problems when it comes to NAT traversal - something that is extremely common.
Yes and as another responder pointed out Gopher as well. Perhaps that's my bias I think that was still mainly the techy crowd.

Most of the non-technical people I helped get connected in those days were only interested in how to find the Netscape browser icon. With Eudora email and later Outlook Express as a close second. They certainly didn't really differentiate the Internet from the Web. Perhaps that was just my limited experience here in Australia.
Macbook “Pro”.
You're supposed to be managing the deployment/delivery of Apple Configurator profiles through Server.app's MDM features. If that is in play, then the workflow looks like:

1. You navigate your device to the MDM web portal served from the Mac running Server.app;

2. the MDM portal recognizes your MAC address as a new device, and allows you to register it;

3. an MDM profile is auto-generated for you, which you download and install;

4. the MDM profile transparently manages/updates a real (Apple Configurator) profile, which has been customized by the MDM for any settings keyed specifically to your computer's MAC address.

Using Apple Configurator without MDM, just using Configurator .profile files, would be like using Windows Group Policy without Active Directory, just using GPO .cab files. It's possible, but just kinda silly.
Love your comment, and that's part of the magic of the Internet being "open"; anyone can create their little slice of it, and for free if they're happy to start out small.

Quality content generates its own organic growth, and organic growth is generally much more sustainable than forced / purchased / out-of-context-marketed growth. If you need to make money from it, you're doing 'old-sk00l internet' wrong.
Do you mean like this?

https://vuetifyjs.com/en/guides/a-la-carte
This is really exciting. I've thought about building a datapath on an FPGA that uses partial reconfiguration to synthesize new hardware blocks based on the math being doing at a particular instant, and it sounds like DARPA wants to do that on steroids. Server CPUs coupled with FPGAs are already being used for a lot of interesting things and I think it makes a lot of sense to integrate together even tighter. I'm also really happy to hear that they're funding new EDA software that is actually smart. The best we have right now is some whitelist based rule checking for schematics and layout. I want full simulation, a perfect, proven parts library with symbols, footprints, 3D models, non-ideal SPICE models, and a thermal model for every part in existence, smart rule checking that looks not only for things like unconnected nets, but logic level mismatches and clock edges that are too fast.

Little pieces of this exist already, but in my opinion, software for creating hardware is way behind software for creating software.
He wasn't CEO for all of 47 days. Some would call that a long vacation.
Why would a government need to launder money? Are there no banks in their jurisdiction? Can they not enforce their laws on those banks?
Wow. I do feel regrettable for what he and his family had to go through, to be uprooted like that after staying there for nine years. I hope he has had supportive friends while in the country.

What’s admirable is how he reacted to the whole situation. He doesn’t seem bitter or prejudiced in that article.

I think he touches on the many aspects of China that are not readily apparent to people who have not lived there.
Most English people tend to view China through the lens of the typical English mainstream media perspective while also lacking in knowledge of their cultural and historical background.
This is correct, and I basically said as much.

However, with a Mac you are most likely using the VPN in a roadwarrior scenario. In this case, I'd argue that one of the peers should decide on what encryption, authentication, etc should be used and the other peer (the roadwarrior Mac, in this case) should accept it.

In server-to-server or network-to-network scenarios, configuring both peers to match makes sense.
>Is it, though? Sirlin's scrub is a strawperson player that will not adapt to any changes in the game, instead asking that the game itself is changed to suit them. Running cheats is the ultimate scrub move - you change your play experience asymmetrically to benefit yourself rather than practicing at the game as offered to get better.

That's a fair point; I agree. But the ancestors are debating a scenario with sanctioned mechanical aids. vkou classifies them as "cheats" above, but I humbly suggest that he used the term improperly, given the context.

Also, remember that we're talking about RTS games, which have an S component as much as they have an RT component. OpenAI can beat Dendi in the early phases of solo mid, but can a team of AIs beat Navi in a full game of DotA? Perhaps they will eventually, but if they do, it will take a whole lot more than just reaction time.
Google doesn't want this bootcamp to exist
Django vs. Laravel, which framework is the best?
For me the issue is not exactly “burning down” the FDA, but rather changing its purpose from regulatory to only advisory (and hopefully changing associated statutes). The FDA provides a very valuable service by identifying the risks associated with various food and drug. It is one thing to educate the public and say “XYZ presents risk of ABC for this specific group of consumers.” It is a very different thing to also add “therefore, consumers cannot make the decision to take on the risks associated with XYZ because the FDA (and associated governing bodies) have decided the general population should not take these risks (regardless of the overall risk level and their individual risk factors).”
hell, I can probably do a solid 9% just visiting the local coffee shop twice a week.
You know, I'm so beat down by the state of apple laptops, I don't even care. I was all ready to spring for a new machine the day these dropped. Until I found out that they max the 13" model at 16 gigs of ram. I'm so pissed. I don't want the 15". That's what external monitors are for. I like the portable to be fucking portable. Jesus. I give up.
The heat off that MBP reminds me of how hot my early 2011 15" MBP got. I suspect that the heat was the culprit for the GPU failures that gave the 2011 model its notoriety.
You might enjoy this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=v0JHDr1oT0Y

It's about security training rather than gaming, but talks about using an approach where students were forced to cheat in order to pass an exam, as an exercise in getting into a mindset of finding the holes in a system and thinking like an adversary.
mercedes has about 1 disengagement per mile. zoox is a respectable third, actually, behind cruise/gm.

https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2018/02/01/disengagem...
It's a GNOME change, not a Canonical one: http://who-t.blogspot.com/2018/04/gnome-328-uses-clickfinger...
My school is working on it - ecoprt.com

But it’s NC State and not Top4, so don’t expect anything to come out of it.
I was at a party a while back. A friend has friends whose families are all pretty wealthy. Friend asks an old buddy what he is doing since college. He responds "I'm a board member now!... Dad says I just have to not ask any questions."

I thought it was a joke, it was not.
Think of the quantum state as another measurement to make on the incoming signals. The receiver already measures many characteristics of incoming waves, like frequency and amplitude, and now it has yet another measurement that can be helpful. It's helpful specifically because they kept a reference wave with the same quantum state. With more data you can get higher fidelity which means you can perhaps see further or see the same distance with less power.
I would agree that China is probably the opposite of libertarian politically.
Culturally, I would find it hard to agree. Most people don’t give a crap about others (in a liberating and selfish manner) unless it concerns them directly.
This!

They ought to rename it, and actually sell a professional laptop.
Cool, sure, but when $800M of capital is on the line, why is it important?

Yeah, everyone who has putzed with robots gets a tingle of excitement when they build their first crab drive. It's neat, but also introduces a huge amount of complexity and probably maintenance wear on the tires from non-subdegree alignment at road speeds.

Tesla is struggling to mass produce electric-from-the-ground-up traditional front-wheel-steering-only powertrains. What's the use case for this degree of added complexity beyond some cute parallel parking?
MacBook Pro 15“ Touch Bar 2018 Teardown
Concerns about excessive thermal throttling on 2018 MBP withIntel Core i9
I don't know a lot about heat dissipation, but could the slimness of the MBP be a factor in this? I would think that after a certain point, you wouldn't be able to get good airflow in such a small space.
Yes, it's incredibly inefficient to have highly trained, expensive doctors acting as tier-1 tech support. But they have a powerful union, so they can keep being paid top dollar for their grunt work.