skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Even if my server goes down, as long as these files are pinned somewhere, anyone should be able to use that IPNS name at another gateway and see the blog."

This is also, in my opinion, the biggest objection to IPFS - that it really doesn't necessarily lead to any kind of true decentralized hosting unless someone else has decided to pin your files.

And why would they? I understand that IPFS is supposed to prioritize connections based on seed/leach ratio like a typical torrent service, but I only torrent a few files at any given time and it's pretty trivial to set them to seed or disable manually; there's no way I'm going to make seed vs. don't seed decisions on every website I visit. So unless for some reason I specifically think to help share some webpage or other, it'll just get auto-deleted from my machine when it cycles out of the cache, as the automated stuff is what'll be keeping track of maintaining my seed/leech ratio, total disk usage for other people's content, upload limits, not leaving if you're one of the only seeders left, etc. In theory, IPFS could be even more prone to link-rot than the vanilla Web, depending on how many people try and actually depend on the decentralized hosting and end up having their files vanish once it's been a long enough time that nobody's still hosting them.

And when there's so many different webpages, as opposed to just a few torrents, why would I think to pin any one thing in particular? Torrents can work based on charity and the need to maintain a particular seed/leech ratio; but I don't have the mental energy to bother deciding whether to be charitable about every dang website I visit.

So this ends up meaning that IPFS works for popular, recent content, where there's enough people who have downloaded the content themselves recently enough that it's still in their cache to meaningfully take the load off the original host in serving that content. But you're not going to get dedicated long-term seeders of any particular site the way you do with highly-desirable files like pirate torrents. But generically, you will always need your own centralized server for any content you want to upload and make sure stays online long-term.

As I understand it, this is sort of the problem Filecoin is trying to solve, but that has its own issues (it's hard to see how paying people to host your stuff on their own machines can ever be cost-competitive with paying AWS to do it).
Ironically the only place that I can load the article is via https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipns/Qme48wyZ7LaF9gC5693DZyJBteh...
Question: did you ever look into the work of Joseph Pompei over at Holosonics? His intent was to confine 3D audio into a narrow cylinder, virtually inaudible outside the cylinder. From the site:

As the ultrasonic beam travels through the air, the inherent properties of the air cause the ultrasound to change shape in a predictable way. This gives rise to frequency components in the audible band, which can be accurately predicted, and therefore precisely controlled. By generating the correct ultrasonic signal, we can create, within the air itself, any sound desired.

- presumably with any directivity desired.

https://www.holosonics.com/what-makes-a-sound-source-directi...

If practical it could keep the noise down in gaming and home theater rooms plus if the cylinder were scaled-up for auditoriums could give all in the audience front row center seats (at least acoustically).
With these everybody can see what they are publishing. On the other hand Facebook can send individualized content and nobody knows what anybody else gets to see.
I wasn't joking at all. Tokyo is gearing up to use face recognition to process people at the 2020 Olympics as well.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/7/17659746/tokyo-2020-olympi...

Also you made a python face recognition library right? I like it a lot, so thanks for making it!
Stuxnet was spread via a USB stick. You know what doesn't have a USB port? A computer from 1995. :)

An ancient piece of air-gaped hardware is pretty bulletproof. I bet the NSA would have more trouble hacking it than a fully up to date install of <modern OS> that is on the Internet.

It's very possible the biggest threat vector is leaving the door unlocked.
Hehe well I won't be joining you, I'm vegan, and even have a shirt with EATING PEOPLE IS WRONG on it.
Basically - why would anyone else have your files pinned somewhere?
MemSQL is hiring for a Technical Trainer (contract)
I had problems and it was "Disable HTML Autoplay" in my case.
I dont think this article has much merit for a few reasons. The two category of Jobs that are outsourced to India or other developing world are Either service oriented or Manufacturing oriented.

For Instance The service oriented jobs in India like Customer support and Offshore Software development cannot be yet replaced by AI. Customer Support is trouble shooting driven and Software Development is innovation driven, the latter would take decades to be replaced by AI, at which point all the Jobs would have been anyway replaced by AI. The first category though could be replaced in the next decade or so.

The automation in manufacturing can replace some redundant jobs but not all of them as evidenced by Teslas Manufacturing fiasco where they tried to automate everything leading upto a delay, as humans are more dexterous and can do some tasks much better than Robots.

So I dont see how AI has reached the point which this article claims can replace human labour yet.
Conglomerated media companies like Sinclair are in the ballpark, but true independent media outlets don’t, for sure.

And it’s not false equivalence in my mind, just worth noting the difference in magnitude and considering the difference that might make.
It is not meant to permanently obscure it; only to avoid specifically naming them for Google Searches as a courtesy. It's not like "Michelle" didn't do what Ben said she did; she in fact did a lot worse.

Ben was merely extending a basic courtesy.
sure, but in practice everybody knows the actually used bits of every pointers per platform. on amd64 e.g. it's the 2 lowest and 16 highest which need to be masked off for comparison. it's simply platform and vm dependent.

I know very well where and how I'm able to compare ptrs in a hash table, and I'm doing it all the time. just complaining out loud is no solution.
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> Andersen Consulting changed their name to Accenture to distance themselves from the Enron scandal

The name change was in place before Enron went bankrupt, and was a condition of the settlement with Andersen Consulting. It was very fortunate timing indeed.
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People have an adverse reaction to the "many worlds" theory. Maybe they don't understand it? Or maybe what I think is the many world interpretation is really something else. Back when I was in theoretical physics we weren't careful about defining terms like this because, as the original comment says, many worlds vs copenhagen was not really an issue of interest, other than in a philosophical sense for people like me. And I didn't take Copenhagen seriously.

If you take away any sensient beings, or whatever it is that is required to make one of these "measurements", then copoenhagen is the same as the many world interpretation. Wave functions go on evolving and there is no collapse. For example, an electron can be in spin up or spin down. It is not in both states. In one "world" it is spin up. In another "world" it is spin down. That is strange enough for all of us. But for some reason people have trouble extending this idea to people, so that a person can be in mulitiple states at the same time (in the different "worlds", in the same sense as the electron being in different "worlds".)

What made this strike home to me was when I was in graduate school and my advisor told me "There are no magic external observers. The observer is subject to quantum mechanics too. He is part of the experiment."

To describe the correspondance between copenhagen and "many worlds", suppose an observer measures if an electron is spin up or spin down. In "many worlds" case his memory of the outcome is correlated with the measured state of the electron. So in the "world" where the electron is spin up (that portion of the wave function) the observer also thinks the electron was measured as spin up. And in the "world" where the electron is spin down, the observer thinks the electron was measured as spin down.

In this "many worlds" case, The observer who measures the electron as spin up will not interact with the observer that measured it as spin down. For all intents in purposes, it is as if that other observer never existed. In the copenhagen case, that other observer does _not_ exist. In this interpretation, the wave function collapsed to only include the part with a single observer.

In effect the observed outcome of the two interpretations is the same. The difference being one of them, the copenhagen interpretation, postulates a magical change in the wave function of the universe.

(Aside - The fact that those observers will not interact is just in a practical sense, to my knowledge. I don't know if it is impossible for them to interact in theory. I don't think it is. Maybe someone else knows the answer to that.)
i actually think its way too cheap, i suspect 80% of revenue in the analytics space comes from customers paying more than $2k a month.
Yup, which was the perfect time to dump all your crypto bags.
Practical ML today and tomorrow
Except a vanishingly small number of tickets for popular events are even going for $50 any more, and how do you feel with the ticket costs $95 but you're actually paying over $20 extra for it? Sticker shock is real. Avoiding a $115 ticket price helps avoid some of that outrage. Here's a case study:

The last couple weeks Paul McCartney went on sale in a few places. At PNC Arena[1], the the prices for standard tickets were as follows[2]:

25.50 + 15.59 = 41.09 (+61%)
65.50 + 18.54 = 84.04 (+28%)
95.50 + 20.41 = 115.91 (+21%)
165.50 + 27.92 = 193.42 (+17%)
250.00 + 39.24 = 289.24 (+16%)

That doesn't look too bad, until you consider that the lowest price offer, which is just over $41 all said and done, but there were only about 250 tickets at that price level releases, for a venue that holds about 20,000 people. That's just over 1% of capacity.

Less than 1,000 tickets of the $65.50 price level were released (and you had to pay $84 to get them). Less than 3,000 of the $95 price level (almost $116 for those) were released.

Now, I'm not sure exactly how you interpret that, but I suspect I know why they put put in a very low price level but didn't stock it with much inventory, and it wasn't to make sure deserving fans got a chance. It does conveniently allow them to to say that brokers grabbed all the cheap inventory in the beginning though...

That's not to say every artist does this. Some provide quite a large amount of low priced tickets, but the trend on that is down, not up, from what I've seen.

1: https://www1.ticketmaster.com/event/2D00551BBC524826

2: Feel free to check for yourself. Use this JS snippet in a developer console from the event page:

_storeUtils.eventJSONData.tickets.filter(offer=>offer.description.match(/Standard Admission/))[0]
.prices.sort((a,b)=>a.amount>b.amount).forEach(pl =>
console.log(`${pl.combinedFees} + ${pl.combinedFees} = ${pl.displayAmountWithFeesTaxes} (+${Math.round((pl.combinedFees/pl.amount)*100)}%)`)
)
What is really missing here is that you can build modular switches out of multiple chips that are a lot more cost effective than connecting single chip boxes mostly because the internal links in a modular chassis in connectors are a lot more cost effective than any cable or optics. This makes the Clos topology with Top or Rack using copper cables and spines out of modular switches with up to 576x100G ports in today's technology winners every time for datacenters. The supercomputing world is still stuck in requirements of extreme low latency and hence hitched to Infiniband or other specialty networks with devices with low number of ports.
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Sponsorships are only one form of monetization. The competitive feature for content creators here is ad revenue sharing.

The only thing I got from reading this write up is that it will be pretty easy for someone to create their own instance and throw ads on someone else's content.
I wonder whether these types of microphones are suitable for field recording.
The original IPFS whitepaper mentions Filecoin, so that is one possible incentive, but there are many other ways to incentivize people to keep files available. Constituting a superset of the current incentives for hosting files, at the very least.
In other news, Bloomberg is has now reached a new low for click-bait technopanic. Do they think the world will run out of low-skilled jobs because AI learns how to perform current ones? History doesn't back this up, as things like the industrial revolution, or automated farming, or etc etc etc didn't cause low-skilled jobs to disappear, it just changed what the exact nature of those jobs were. More and more i dislike seeing Bloomberg on here, they're "tech scare" approach to journalism is inaccurate and annoying, and it's causing a lot of unnecessary negativity towards new technologies.
Because the network can pay them, if you pay in a kiddy.

Its called FileCoin. And its the answer to what the grandparent says.
$1.1 Billion? That too much, even Github hasn't reached profitability yet inspite of being the most popular Code hosting site. Gitlab can never reach the level of popularity that Github has. Then how are they valuing it at the price point? Some of Khoslas investment lately are so off, for instance the 'Hyperloop' transport Inc.
14 gigabits per pin - quad-data-rate at 3.5 ghz clock.
I guess you win. MWI is really not different from classical probability in any way.
Fair enough, but it seems he added a lot of unnecessary detail that made her easy to identify with high confidence. The exact length of the prison sentence? The year of resignation? The title at current and previous job?

That seems like a lot of work that went at cross purposes to anonymization.
If that's true, yes, it's pretty crappy. It could also be an unintended loophole brokers discovered that allows higher likelihood of getting a verified fan code, which wouldn't surprise me.
It’s in the article
Why not? The world is your stage, now in 3D.
Most of our stuff is focused on calculation and interpolation on raster data, so a lot of numpy with appropriate hooks. Porting varies, sometimes it’s as simple as changing a couple of function calls to gdal, sometimes it’s trickier. I’ve only made it through a couple of the simpler tools, like a mesoscale wind map based energy production calculation and a wind resource grid interpolator that were originally standalone anyways. The gdal calls to read and write rasters are pretty easy to use.
> = $14

.. per year. Or $1.16/mo or under .04%. Although that's not literally nothing, it's awfully close. Oh, and that's before income tax.

> If you assumed you could get 9% in the stock market, the time value would be $68.

Although that assumption may be a bit of a stretch, something a typical consumer might be far more likely to encounter (and need not apply income tax adjustments to) is consumer loan payments.

A 20% revolving balance paid 15 days early results in $12.50 monthly, which can pay for a streaming subscription.
I don't think the rule that was violated here is very complicated at all. I'll get the technical details wrong, I'm sure, but the underlying ethic of the situation is obvious:

If you issue a stock option with a strike price equal to the day's market price of an option, it's "at the money". These options are tax-favored, presumably because it doesn't have intrinsic value (until it's "in the money", when the company shares later appreciate).

What you can instead do, if you're a cheat, is to pretend you're issuing tax-favored incentive options "at the money", but backdate them so that their price at issuance is the low price within some window. These options are effectively "in the money" (whatever the difference is between the low price set for the option and the current higher price is locked-in profit) when issued, have intrinsic value, and should be fully taxable, but you're falsely claiming otherwise.
Agreed, the first-party cookie is pretty self-evidently not a web-wide tracker.

There are lots of config options. Here's what I like to use:

// Google Analytics Code.
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
})(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
window.ga=window.ga||function(){(ga.q=ga.q||[]).push(arguments)};

// https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/field-reference
ga('create', 'UA-XXX-XX', 'auto', {
// The default cookie expiration is 2 years. We don't want our cookies
// around that long. We only want just long enough to see analytics on
// repeat visits. Instead, limit to 31 days. Field is in seconds:
// 31 * 24 * 60 * 60 = 2678400
'cookieExpires': 2678400,
// We don't need a cookie to track campaign information, so remove that.
'storeGac': false,
// Anonymize the ip address of the user.
'anonymizeIp': true,
// Always send all data over SSL. Unnecessary, since the site only loads on
// SSL, but defense in depth.
'forceSSL': true});
// Now, record 1 pageview event.
ga('send', 'pageview');
"made my own chip"

You are aware that making a chip with any reasonable processing power either requires using existing designs, or teams of hundreds of people for several years, yes?

You're back to trusting trust. Or using toy computers.
I use gitlab every day. When we get a large MR gitlab is almost unusable. You need to add pagination instead of auto-closing file diffs. The page gets so slow to the point that there are multiple seconds of lag time when you type or do any action. Sure it's not a great idea to have huge MRs but sometimes it happens. And when it does it makes me want to not use this product
I dont think so, Github has way better integration with host of products and Nicer UI than either of the two you mentioned.
Cloudflare's business model is intrinsically threatened by the existence of a global, distributed, and (basically) commons-supported CDN, because that would make their point-served, centralized, relatively expensive CDN obsolete.
This could backfire if the social makeup of the fan base / audience is part of the band's market appeal.
According to this guy, the Western media has a habit of getting this story very wrong: https://twitter.com/ChinaLawTransl8/status/10420403727660277...

There are so many things wrong with China and the world today, there is simply no reason to make things up, and much of what is in this piece is wild speculation or outright fabrication, belittling the real struggles of some featured in it.

More: https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/seeing-chinese-social-cred...
What if there was a "cash back" rebate available inside the venue? So TM sells each ticket for $1000, and you get $500 back once you get inside? This would make it very expensive for scalpers to be left with extra tickets. There would still be the problem of preventing people from claiming multiple rebates but I think that's solvable.
The desktop version of Figma is built using Electron. The web version is not.
How to Become a Better Software Developer: A Handbook on Personal
It's a telling indictment of the current state of intellectual-property regulation that public-domain activists consider a 100-year copyright to be a "victory".

It's hard to imagine that this term won't be extended again before 2067!
I don't understand why serving text content -- even a million times -- is so resource intensive that it has to be done on a hosted platform in 2018.
Is there proof that they are?
> this tool is meant for developers smarter than me

Developers solving different problems than you. When you run into a problem that needs this tool don't hesitate to use it. Dealing with data structures like this isn't really harder than the usual JS stuff, just different and a learning curve.
cloning trees, garbage collection, serialization on structures with references. graphs.
This is not a case of either/or. It's a case of both/and. We should criticize both the PRC and the US.
My intuition says that this idea, miniaturized to the size of an atom, might bring back some heretofore unknown information about the atomic realm. Like an atomic, multi-directional sound (or any wave in the EM spectrum) transducer, and then bring that data to higher levels... Yes, I know I'm crazy... <g>
Alexandre+Benalla+un+homme+à+tout+faire+du+Président+Macron
My cynical take would be that alcoholics (and other people whose self-destructive habits you could mine from their purchase behavior) would be less likely to make waves or rebel, so I'd have thought you'd lose a couple of points for never buying any alcohol... Also odd that "buying nappies" earns you points for being responsible, presumably the Great Database already knows you are a parent?
Strap on the Fitbit: John Hancock to sell only interactive life insurance
> (it's hard to see how paying people to host your stuff on their own machines can ever be cost-competitive with paying AWS to do it).

The counterargument would be: there are cheaper ways to mine bitcoin than on aws infra. If you can incentivize that with money, you can incentivize storage with filecoin.

You also get censorship resilience (and maybe even better distribution if all goes excellently).
The last update I saw was from July:

http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-foundation/2018-July/00...
You're implying that there's some ulterior-motive Embrace, Extend, Extinguish plan underlying this? Is there anything, however, in what they announced they will do that will have a negative effect, though?
I could be, but then again, I think that audience then doesn't really understand what's going on, and how it's not as clear cut as they think. For one example of that, see this[1].

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18028314
> the copenhagen interpretation, postulates a magical change in the wave function of the universe.

And the MWI postulates a magical branching into different "worlds", doesn't it?
It’s a great technology, and of course that means that Cloudflare wants to run a monkey-in-the-middle attack on it.

If you're publishing a service or a piece of software, and absolutely everyone is happy with it, you're doing something wrong.
> For example, an electron can be in spin up or spin down. It is not in both states. In one "world" it is spin up. In another "world" it is spin down.

I don't think most MWIers would agree with this. Normally they consider worlds to have split only once (irreversible, or approximately irreversible) decoherence has set in. An electron in the coherent state |z+> + |z-> = |x+> wouldn't qualify.

In fact, this seems to be one of the biggest difficulties of the interpretation. Nobody knows whether there even is such a thing as in-principle irreversible decoherence, and if there's not, then the point at which it is "approximately irreversible" is arbitrary.
When I was finishing up uni I realized I either had to turn the technology I was working on in to a job or find a job. So I started my company. It’s been almost 20 years now. Still having fun, traveling the world, doing interesting work.
McKinsey was far more than just a management consultant for Enron. They were deeply embedded in the decision making process and even if they didn't do anything outright criminal they certainly share moral responsibility for Enron's misdeeds.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/07/22/the-talent-myt...