skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The list says to use an iPhone instead of a laptop, I presume because the iPhone has hardware encryption coming from the Secure Enclave. But newer MacBook Pros from Apple, and even the iMac Pro, feature the T2 chip to achieve the same result as the Secure Enclave with regards to encryption.

I guess my point is this list is deeply flawed because it explains none of its decision-making process. Journalists aren’t idiots. Tell them why they should not use a laptop.
Trouble is the commit is there: The thing has been taken at face value.

This galloping madness is beginning to scare the shit out of me.
All of that stuff mentioned that would happen before it has almost happened.

There isn’t an accepted RFC yet, so it will be some time still, but it is a desired feature.
CRISPR fears are really overrated. It is nowhere near as mature as it needs to be. Further, you're less likely to make anything useful with it and more likely to just kill the organism you are trying to create. I work in a biotech lab, and we hardly ever use it and instead opt for manual plasmid knock in/down or tissue engineering techniques instead. The extent of work you have to put in to actually get something useful from CRISPER is prohibitive of it being used to target you and I.
Smoking kills 50-100 times more Americans every year than 9/11 did.

There are a few obvious reasons why the response was much less: (1) Natural disasters are more common, more expected, and less psychologically dramatic than terrorist attacks. (2) Americans intuitively view Puerto Ricans as foreigners regardless of whether they legally have US citizenship. (Due to different culture, language and religion)
I don't work there but do know several people working in Sofia for startups or corps like VMWare, SAP, etc. I'd say that you'd get about 2-2.5k euro net if have 5+ years experience. Junior is probably 1-1.5k
My point was that a regular user won't find the historical meaning of the term "mechanical turk" without hacks, being steered towards commercial products of that name instead.
Working journalists don't care about the T2 chip in the iMac Pro. They don't even know what it is.

(Maybe a few tech journalists do, but certainly it's going to be a small minority of journalists in general)
What's the status of Nim's garbage collector? https://nim-lang.org/docs/gc.html Last time Nim came up on HN someone said they were changing from reference counting to tracing. Also seems like the Nim developers are reluctant to make a choice here? GC is a show-stopper for some developers but an absolute necessity for others.
To contrast, if donated to the right organizations, you could save approximately 3 children under 5 from dying of malaria.
This highlights the tension between wanting to navigate the instrument, easily vs wanting to understand the music easily in terms of scales and tonal theory. Standard music notation is great for understanding the notes in the context of the scales and chords that you're using, while guitar tablature is excellent at telling a guitar player how to play the notes.

As a pianist, I'm certainly not looking for this, but a piano keyboard is designed exactly the same way that standard music notation is; the notes for a C major scale are the default, and then there are the other notes that you can access differently. I would suspect that vocalists would prefer standard notation also, since their ear naturally understands things in terms of the scales that they are used to.

From talking to advanced classical guitar players, I get the sense that standard musical notation is generally preferred over tablature. They know where the notes are already, so they don't need notation that tells them where the notes are. Their chief aim is to play the music in a way that understands the material and treats it well, so for them the standard music notation that provides easy musical understanding is an advantage.

I've programmed some things that worked with music, and it's annoying to have to convert between standard notation and integers that represent unique notes. This proposed notation system might make an ideal specialized notation for programming music applications.
Money buys founder an accelerated timeline. With consumer products like these it's much easier to get to your first 10 or 100 customers when you have the funds to spend on ads vs trying to get them organically.
Yeah but it was already the case with CGI. IT's true that it's going to be easier and easier to do fake porn, fake speeches, fake voice recording, fake vides....
"When I opened my bank account, I deposited say £5000 cash. What does the bank do with this money?"

It burns it. Probably quite literally.

The cash represents a transfer from the central bank into the commercial bank's deposit account at the central bank - for which it receives an interest rate.

Cash is just a receipt for deposits held at the central bank.
$250K doesn't seem like a lot in the "live forever as a result" scale. That's the going rate for a very preppy undergrad experience today.

> He tells me he doesn’t understand why people would want to have their own home; he doesn’t get attached to things or people.

Ah, yes. Immortal and alone. Live forever by yourself. _The dream._

I'm assuming his current secret startup is selling to the masses the life extending genius that only millionaires can get today.
If Satoshi had thought that a selected set of entities was an adequate replacement for the central entity for control over the money system, he would never have invented Bitcoin. The driving force behind Bitcoin was that it doesn't matter how many entities you have. Every participant needs to be treated as an equal party. Blockchains with "master nodes" are completely missing the wood for the trees.

It really is a shame that we've got so many people trying to do smart contracts "on the blockchain," when everything that they're attempting to offer was previously possible before Bitcoin because their solutions ultimately require a central entity or selected set of entities to work.
A smart contract can easily have a "both/two thirds(if a 3rd party is used as an unbiased arbiter) parties agree something went wrong, cancel the contract" function.
In Defense of a “Single-World” Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Yeah, lots of people think HR is resources for humans, but it’s really for the management of resources that are humans.
Apple definitely has leverage because we now know they have not made any "special accommodations" for China in their products and services. And as far as I know, iMessage remains unblocked unlike other encrypted services like WhatsApp.

That doesn't mean that Apple can do whatever they want. They've had to shut down iBooks and iTunes Movies within months of turning it on. They've had to remove VPN apps and the NYT's app from the App Store.

But they haven't had to fundamentally cripple the security of their products and services. And that's a meaningful concession they've obtained, because they're Apple.

>I’ll go one better: can you find an instance on record of Apple executives like Tim Cook criticizing Chinese government policies like they do the US government? Any instance of push back at all?

We know they pushed back on the data localization regulation because they said so in a statement to Reuters.
Tangent: I thought with webauthn and the new Firefox, U2F keys should work with Google Services.

Has anyone been able to log in using a Yubikey and Firefox to Google? Because I haven't.
Everybody prefers to be a contractor p much everywhere in Europe. Lower taxes and insurance. I can claim back VAT and expanse my car, fuel, laptop etc.
Can the EU become another AI superpower?
South Africa’s Supreme Court Legalises Private Use of Cannabis
If any (No)SQL database contains a mistake, you can either fix the mistake or change the program working with the data to either ignore or override the mistake. Smart contracts are running on an immutable database, the blockchain. If anything is landing there because of an error in the contract, you will never get the mistake out. It's engraved forever.

Updating a smart contract should never happen because once you can update it, you can change its contents and its rules in a way that might benefit only one side. Even if you create rules to update the contract, finding 100% consensus (everything below 100% is unacceptable if you are explicitly using smart contracts to disallow cheating) to update the contract takes time in which more mistakes might happen and make the whole contract unusable.
Don't many contracts rely on something to be verified in the real world? If I sign a contract with you to deliver 100kg of rice, and you claim I delivered wheat instead, how can an algo decide that?
Consider the source and where the source's money is coming from.
Smartphones are not necessarily good things. I think they are damaging attention[1] and causing a lot of negative effects on society (social media, fake information, etc.). Humans shouldn't be online at all times.

[1] https://hbr.org/2018/03/having-your-smartphone-nearby-takes-...
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The benefit of the bank account is that you get interest on what you have saved. You only get cash back from a credit card on what you've spent.
I think we have different pain thresholds. I would consider this very painful:

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/transformers-0.5.5.0/docs...

> It also provides a huge opportunity for testing. [...]

That's a neat point, thanks for bringing it up.
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So you don't trust your own eyes and nose and need "Siri" to confirm it for you?
I don't have the graph of music industry revenue, but if you take the long view, the 90s and early '00s were an anomalous golden period for revenue. 1999 would have been about the very peak itself. Effectively, with the introduction of CDs, the record industry discovered they could churn out crap, force people to buy the crap with the hits, and charge them for the crap as if it were hits, and people would meekly pay for it. When digital music and à la carte came along, that business model was not sustainable, and the industry is forced to return to its older and less lucrative business model.
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Worse, modern "open" offices are designed for interruption.
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Incidentally, in Rust this kind of thing could get you 151 bytes out of Rust: http://mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com/2015/01/151-byte-... (linked in that post)

But that was before 1.0. Updating the example and applying some more tweaks, it’s down to 145: https://github.com/tormol/tiny-rust-executable
The boring web
If Nim’s compile-to-c is attractive, and you like lisp, how about Chicken Scheme?: https://www.call-cc.org/

What little I’ve done is a pleasure. I like some of Racket’s post-Scheme language features better, but Chicken has a lot of Get Stuff Done libraries (eggs), and compiling a single executable is pretty killer.

Racket will bundle up an executable pretty well too, but it’s hard to compete with Scheme -> C -> statically linked executable for some things.
Apple told Reuters that is not what's happening:

>Apple says the joint venture does not mean that China has any kind of “backdoor” into user data and that Apple alone – not its Chinese partner – will control the encryption keys.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh...
"Most startups get away with low spending is because of rich family"

I think you are too negative but there is definitely something true about a lot of founders coming from well off families. A long time ago I did some business ventures with people from wealthy families and I quickly noticed what advantage it is to have family that can give you a place to live, a car and some other necessities. These guys lived a frugal life but they didn't have to be afraid of going homeless as I was since I had nobody to give me money.
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In the crash of 2008, they were temporarily insured. It's not unreasonable to expect they will similarly be insured in any major financial crash.
Napoli is considered to be "the black sheep" in Italy (disclaimer: I'm italian).
People drive on sidewalks, 3 people (full family on scooters) without helmet (that was the first thing I saw while getting in).
It's also much more terrible at mafia level than you can think of.
It's hard to blow the whistle anonymously, people seem to react poorly to anonymous accusations. There is even an amendment in the US constitution that mentions this. And even today on the Internet, if there is reporting of anonymous accusations against someone or a company for wrongdoing, people will ask (on this very message board) "oh if it was real, why won't the accusers come forward and be named?"
White House is considering antitrust investigation into 'online platform bias'
They lost control of it with the ipod and apple music. Any song $0.99. That was the end of the record labels dictating prices. If they held out and refused apple, they would lose to the other labels. The market was too big. The ipod, too popular.

They were already feeling the squeeze from retail. Consolidation of record stores left large retailers like Walmart with the bulk of sales. CD sales would account for < 1% of Walmart's total sales but would account for > 40% of the labels sales. This allowed Walmart to undercut the labels own prices and sell CDs as a loss leader putting downward pressure on overall prices.
You’re not even following the logic of the list: it explains in detail how to turn on full disk encryption, meaning that journalists should care about those details.

I guess my second point is: don’t trust a list about security that was not updated in a year.
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That's not the case.

A bank with an empty balance sheet can give a loan. It is simply Dr Loans, Cr Deposits. That's it.

Nobody ever makes cash deposits into a bank. The cash is just burned when the bank receives it (if it is worn enough).

A cash deposit to a bank is just a deposit transfer from the central bank. Cash is just a receipt for entries already at the central bank.
You are starting half way down the process.

To take your example
1) The balance sheet is $1mn Fed deposit asset, $1mn Credit to D.
2) The Balance sheet is $1mn Fed deposit asset + $1mn Loan Asset to B, $1mn Credit to B, $1mn Credit to D.
3) If the cash is withdrawn then the Fed deposit asset and the Credit to B is marked down. The cash will be new cash issued as a receipt for the deposit at the Fed.

You can do exactly the same without the deposit of D first. At that point the Fed asset would be negative and become the lender with the loan posted as collateral.
My impression from the article and docs is that Nim offers multiple choices specifically because garbage collection ain't one-size-fits-all.
Trained a lot of journalists, have you? A lot of them asked you about the chipsets in the machines they were using?

For what it's worth: no, the important difference between a Macbook and an iPhone isn't the SEP.
Or you can build your own 8x2080Ti rig which will have 80% of performance for 1/10th of the cost.
I don't work around this industry, but it seems to me you are right. I've wondered about the value added by the record labels since the emergence of the internet. It seems that the value of labels used to be production, promotion, and distribution, all of which have been massively simplified in the last 20 years. Perhaps can fans now have a more direct relationship with the artists, and the economics can be further improved by elimination of the intermediate party (record labels).
Bitcoin was more about reducing transaction costs by sacrificing the ability to undo transactions than anything else. That failed, but the world had plenty of currency’s Bitcoin was supposed to be an alternative and cheaper banking system.
That is another way to accomplish the same goal. This trade-off is more aesthetic than architectural and is just a matter of language support
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I sometimes wonder how much of an impact 9-11 would have made if the planes had killed 3000 people in poor neighborhoods in Louisiana or Alabama. Same for Maria. If it had devastated Manhattan I think there would have been much more of an effort to help.
>Very frustrating for companies who actually do use machine learning to solve a problem!

I get that on a purely technical level, but really... who cares about the implementation? If a company is solving problems it really doesn't matter, and if they're solving it better using some mix of ML and human intervention... again; who cares?
Since the lack of talent is a huge problem, there are tons of _academies_ that claim to be producing developers in just a few months. This generates a lot of people with no experience, close to zero knowledge but yet eager to join the industry. A viable strategy for companies is to hire as many of those as possible, hoping that there are just a few diamonds there. That's the main reason Jrs are terribly underpaid. If one prooves to have potential - it is not uncommon to have a salary doubled in a few monthsm, otherwise other organization might snatch the person.

I had interviewed a little more than a hundred people for regular and senior roles only to eventually give up and train a couple of juniours.
Stealing JS example from another comment...

function adder (x) {
return function (y) {
return x + y;
}
}

How would your implementation handle this? Something like lambda lift + curry lifted function + partial application in adder1? I don't see how that could work, because the way I think about currying involves creating more closures?
There is a academic paper here explaining how it works.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105752191...

Essentially the bank can make the loan with a zero balance sheet.

If you work at the back end of a retail bank operation then you'll know that the loan department and the treasury department do not talk to each other about quantities. They talk to each other about price. Other than that the two operations operate in parallel. 'Funding' is just swapping the liabilities around in the market to try and reduce the amount the bank pays out in interest.
That's weird, they do not mention the water and food left to rot on governmental parking lots and airport runways. I guess they just completely forgot about it..
Feedback about Data Science resources
Hi guys, first of all I am grateful to have been admitted here. I have fallen in the site a couple of times before, while surfing the web looking for info about certain topics.
Now I have a direct question to post here, hoping may I get some orientation.
There it goes. I graduated in Physics and I had realized I have to keep studying so to earn a living in a related field job. I fancy Data Science, quite popular subject these days. Just to paraphrase, a data scientist would be someone who knows more about coding than a statistician and more of statistics than a coder (?)
I have chosen to procced with these two further steps.
1. As I have some (little) knowledge on Java, I may do a more specific course in J2EE and Spring frameworks. It is my understanding that is something quite valuated by companies, and I guess I would get a nice grasp of computer science after this course.
2. In order to fulfil my statistics needs, I am considering a online 1 year-Master's course in Applied Statistics.
So that would be for a beginning in my journey to Data Science. Afterwards I would sum up some other courses in Python, Databases, Machine Learning, and other stuff.
Though, some feedback before starting would be great, about whether should I pick out another coding option rather than J2EE, for example.
I thank you very much and wish you the best,
regards,
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I wonder, since the NN cores of the GPU are used for real-time raytracing, will they be able to run custom NNs possibly not related to visual stuff in parallel to the ray-tracing stuff?

Edit : found the answer on Internet, apparently the RT (raytracing) cores are different and separated from the Tensor (NN) cores on the RTX
Any benchmarks in the presentation today?
Previous discussion in 2015
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10738607
I'm living in Italy at the moment, and I can watch the brain drain happening in real time. Every single university student I know here is looking to go to the UK or Germany when they graduate, almost without exception.

I can't blame them at all, taxes are excessive and bureaucracy is excruciating here. Finding even a temporary job usually requires family connections, so the dumbest people with connections end up as managers while the smartest get put into lower positions. It's a great place to live if you have money, but a horrible place to be for smart young people without lots of social/family clout.
In the circumstances you've described, I feel as though anonymity is just a work-around for a larger flaw of mankind. The underlying issue is that humans tend to lack empathy, are too judgemental and just generally overly critical of others.

It's 2018, but we're still quick to grab the pitchforks and torch the place - metaphorically speaking.
Since I have used Nim in a small team effort creating an enterprise data analysis application, let me put in a good word. The ease of coding and speed of execution was what caught our attention. I was expecting the worst (from past experiences with new languages) but we were so surprised that we could complete our project all in Nim. These are a few things that I love with Nim:

- One's knowledge of Python jives really well with Nim. Thinking in Pythonic ways, a small number of constructs in Nim gets you a long way without gotchas that block you. For example you can easily integrate Numpy in minutes.

- Statically typed, fast compilation, readable code, good module import system, binary executable that you can move around easily without installing anything more at distributed sites, and a built-in test and integration framework.

- An efficient web server comes along, supports a practical and useful template system for small team web applications. Concurrency. Async dispatch/coroutines gives you back-end options to scale.

- Nim's Postgres database client driver is glitch free, easy to use, and it turned out to be a real good work horse.
Sounds like Core Animation could fix that issue? I have a patch for that almost ready to go (mstange is testing it as we speak).
"the subatomic rules of quantum mechanics, which continue to work within a universal, Newtonian time frame"

Wait, what? QM is based on special relativity. It's problem with general relativity compatibility only remotely touches time, if at all.
German is the most common language in the EU after English, and the top first language even before English.
I am the author, AMA.
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Couple of odd points

- Don't use your fingerprint to lock/unlock devices.

(presumably because you can be unconscious, and still unlock your phone?)

But the stand out one for me was

If you have a Windows laptop, uninstall any antivirus products except for Windows Defender (from Microsoft).

I am assuming this means that they don't trust Symantec? Who might be installing backdoors? How verified is this threat? And should we tell every major bank / finance house / government who seem to have AV everywhere.