skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I am one of those. My main problem with supply and demand is that it is often threated as if it were the "natural order" and not something we created.
The one I'm familiar with linked in another comment) used FPGAs, which the algorithm could control the circuit design of.
At least for dentistry that is changing: I had a filling recently, due to a cavity identified at a prior checkup.

At the end of the checkup, a front-office staffer went on to Delta Dental’s web site, pulled up my record, and requested a treatment estimate. The answer was returned within a minute.

A few days later, I got a copy of the estimate in the mail for my records. I didn’t have any other dental events (which might’ve affected the estimate), so on the day of the filling, I paid the amount as part of the office visit. A few days later, I got the Explanation of Benefits for the procedure, confirming the amount paid was correct.

If I had chosen to, then I would’ve gotten all that over the web instead of on paper.

As far as I’m concerned, the dentist’s office is where I want them to be, in terms of billing processes. My eye doctor is able to do something similar, looking up lens & frame benefits etc. on computer, no I don’t have to be billed after the fact.
> it's incredibly different to compare the number of customers who might leave Red Hat to the number of customers who left Github.

I don't think it's that different. Github makes somewhere around 50% of it's revenue from enterprise customers.[1] That said, my point was that they aren't very similar, so we seem to be saying the same thing, you just seem to be doing so rather aggressively.

1: https://www.businessinsider.com/githubs-enterprise-service-b...
I recently read something (cant find the link, sorry) about having a generator and pump on-site, and then pumping water from your swimming pool to your sprinklers. I suppose not everyone has a pool, but collecting rainwater etc in an underground sump could be sufficient.

You could even imagine a closed-system that collects rain/sprinkler water from the roof guttering and drains around the property and channelling them into the pool/sump. You'd lose a lot of water to evaporation/steam in a fire I guess, but it could buy you some time.

The other alternative I guess is just dont build your house out of combustible materials. I guess some stuff might just melt in hot-enough conditions, but by that stage where ceramics and metals are just melting in ambient temperatures I think its pretty much a game-over situation regardless... but before that extreme you can probably get a lot of mileabe by building your houses out of brick (there seems to be a lot of brick foundations left in the footage I am seeing on TV)
met the co-founder Howie at a dinner in San Fran back in 2012 - I think the app was called Grid back then? Very passionate and driven, I remember him leaving the event early to work on the app.

I also remember my typical cynicism (held to myself of course) when he described the idea (what's this, Excel for ipads??!).. But now with a $1.1B valuation, wow - so well done to him and his team!
I believe bitcoins proof of work has been formally verified, however I can't find a source for that.

There is also this https://iohk.io/research/papers/#9BKRHCSI that claims to be formally verified Proof of Stake.
I read that point as sort of analysis paralysis where you just end up spending a lot of time researching and thinking through and not enough time taking action. For me, I've noticed there are times when I use thinking as a crutch to avoid actually doing. Often, doing, making a mistake, and then correcting is more expedient than analyzing all options to find the optimal one.
That's a good question. I assumed that the hashcash benefit in SA had been tuned over the years. I had picked the largest hashcash at the time for the 10-60 seconds per recipient. Not sure what the benefit the GPU can bring is, 10x? 100x?

Yes, botnets or GPUs can be used to accelerate hashcash. But the point of hashcash isn't that it can't be accelerated, it is that it increases the cost of sending each message dramatically. Most spam seems to be sent because it is just so damn cheap to send a million messages. Adding a second to each recipient is a significant cost.

Of course, as we saw with car alarms and immobilizers, there are unintended consequences with things. In cars, we moved from people stealing cars in the middle of the night, to people getting confronted at gunpoint to get the keys. I wonder if increasing the cost of sending spam might just promote the highly targeted methods like catfishing or whatnot.
I commented pretty far down a long thread. I didn’t expect much. Like you, the network is what I’m afraid of losing.
Here's your quote I responded to:

"why George Soros and not other liberal jewish billionaires, who no doubt exist?"

Evidence was provided to prove that other liberal Jewish billionaires have, in fact, been targeted.

> I've never heard of this Steyer guy, I know Bloomberg and I'm not aware that he's banned from Hungary, or that he has a dedicated wikipedia page to "Bloomberg conspiracy theories", so I don't think he can be remotely compared to Soros.

This is more goalpost moving. Nobody claimed they were targeted more than Soros or that you knew who they were. None of that changes the fact that they are liberal, Jewish billionaires who have been targeted. This is the criteria you created.
> most people on my calls are in a meeting room or a quiet place

Since I moved to NYC, I think I haven't had one phone call without some obnoxiously loud siren/horn/baby/dog/jack hammer/piano/bros in the background. People must think I listen to the NYC soundtrack on repeat at full volume and make phone calls.

I envy you. :)
Quick glance at Microchip shows, all in quantities of 5k units, $1.02-$2.28 per unit for 1Mb ROM, $0.36 for 1Mb flash, (if aiming for $1) $0.96-$1.10 per unit for 16Mb flash, and highest is 64Mbit at $1.95-$2.18 per unit. Memory is cheap if your product is popular or can share a big order with someone(s) else.

Since not a hardware guy, I don't know if PCB design or packaging cost goes up significantly for adding a 1Mb ROM or flash. I doubt it, though, given these kind of memory chips get used in dirt-cheap boards. Albeit with lower amounts of storage usually given those board try to minimize costs.
"Now all I’ve got to do is decide what to store on the roughly 900 bytes of memory implanted in my hand. Maybe I’ll put a GIF..."

I think that's all I needed to hear. He implanted a device in his body with no plans on what he wants to do with it. Don't get me wrong, I've purchased tools I didn't immediately have a need for on an impulse, but this is blurring the lines between quirky and insanity in my mind.
An algorithm to detect fake news stories with 75 percent accuracy gets a boost
Could be, it was an article in a young scientist magazine maybe 20 years back or so. As I remember they iterated over actual hardware versions using modular passive components (resistors, capacitors, coils) much like you would find in a school lab.
5. Smart people sometimes see in-depth thinking and reflection as the solution to every problem.

...

Which of these five patterns do you identify with the most? Try rank-ordering them. Are there colleagues or other people in your life who seem to fall into these traps?

Err...how ironic.

More to the point, it seems like #5 should actually be about thinking and reflecting poorly. Taking a break from thinking about your career decision to solve a puzzle might help you think better when you pick it up again. It won't solve the problem directly.
In some European countries at least. Poland is next door from Germany, and we have more "american" distribution of wages - programmers are high-earners, teachers are low-earners.

From what I hear, Germany seems relatively unique in having its programmers a part of the lower class.
Just to drive it home.

Those who actually make their own encryption libraries know their stuff, and have been in the space for years.

You should never, ever, roll your own encryption.

If it's a requirement, then change your damn requirements, because just like consensus; it is not easy to get right, and the pros make mistakes.
Do you have to be a right-winger or a left-winger to believe that private companies owe you something be it education, training, or a special level of compensation. I mean they already pay taxes. If you don't like the conditions and terms offered, just ignore the company. How come people on HN are praising the free market (saying there is no shortage, it's just supply and demand, and stuff like that) and criticising the companies who're exercising their right for free market at the same time?
Those Europeans surprised at the the amount of money Americans make evidently aren't working in America. Maybe that tautologically makes them not the best, but I doubt it. Sometimes a "good enough" salary at a place you're comfortable beats an astronomical salary that requires moving to Silicon Valley.

That you personally only know few people who moved to Europe from the US but many who moved to the US probably says more about your location than about general trends. I know only few Germans who moved to the US for work, but many Americans, Iranians and Chinese who moved to Berlin. But that's where I live, so it's to be expected.
Wooo encouraging strangers to make impulsive financial/career decisions
It's currently free as it's in Public Beta.
Krisp will have a freemium business model after Beta.
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Consider this: approximately 32% of Deutsche Telekom is owned by the german state[0]. Its in their interest, that the money goes to the "right" company.

[0]: https://www.telekom.com/en/investor-relations/company/shareh...
How about a VST plugin? that would give you cross-platform support (Mac/Windows/Linux/iOS) and would allow it to be used as a part of many, many audio processing pipelines - from simple streamers/youtubers all the way to pros
This is the world that the religious right wanted (but in their favor) in the 80's, that we all stood up to and rejected. How did we end up back here again?
Troll. It's easy to post outrage on the internet; it's much, much harder to take real action. People have mortgages, car payments and kids. It's not like those just go away when you leave a job. Most people don't have liquid savings that will last them more than 6+ months - especially with families. I don't work at Facebook, but I don't think it's fair to expect the workers to abandon ship when it's the leadership piloting their Titantic.

There's also an argument to be made for fixing the problem from within that you don't even consider.
Talking less about antennas but more about the overall concept, most evolutionary algorithms don't take manufactoring into account at all, so they tend to be a pain to actually build.
Good point, seems the valuation might be a little high.
Our org uses Salesforce for exactly that purpose. Unfortunately the deeper reality is that the value in this database is that non-database-savvy individuals can arbitrarily modify the data schema through a simple GUI tool leading to Objects/Tables with hundreds of fields, computed properties, and other often undocumented pitfalls and dependencies.

As might be expected this yields large numbers of performance penalties and application level work-arounds that deeply slow application development and neuter the quality of often business-critical tools.

It's my theory that the reason such platforms are allowed to exist without employees immediately breaking out in open rebellion is because the users of Salesforce and similar products are often non-technical enterprise workers whose quality bar has been welded by management and past experiences to be lower than the Mariana Trench.
It was in a magazine I read in my youht 20 years or so back. I'll try to find it online if it's there.
I actually changed careers three times in my 30s. No issues whatsoever.
Sounds like the proverbial Germans downtalking Germany And all the Germans agreeing.

Then again, why would a society change for the better if there would not be all the internet and Stammtisch complaining and moaning about all that could be better?
Glad I could deliver :P
The wildfires in California are insane right now. I live in San Francisco and it's been extremely hard to breathe. All you see is folks with masks everywhere. It's just so sad to hear about all that's going down.
Entire major temple complexes overrun by South American jungle have only been found because of modern deep scanning radar, so I feel it's pretty likely that the number is on the higher end compared to estimates from even 20 years ago.
I'm always willing to hear outside opinions. I try to consume a variety of news sources. The reason I can so easily cite insanity coming from the right is because a man was moved to kill almost a dozen people just two weeks ago because of his ideas about Soros funding a caravan. That's not really something I picked up "in my echo chamber". Can you point to anything from the left even approaching that kind of level of insanity?
>those claims demonstrate the ignorance of the left regarding how right-leaning voters (who are overwhelmingly pro-israel due to their religious beliefs) think

Those right-leaning voters are not pro-Israel because they like jews, they believe that if jews return to Israel it will bring about the apocalypse and they will be saved [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism
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So long as "the industry" refers to the maker community [since the RPi was never really intended as an industrial product], it has done a lot. And it shows by the number of copycat products available. I personally know dozens of people who never would have experimented with robotics or electronics if it weren't for the RPi. An Arduino/clone opened up the world for a lot of people. But being able to just type a command on the Pi and see something happen does a great deal for the learning process. And it provides a somewhat familiar GUI to get it up and running before continuing on. The fact that it doubles as a low end computer helps justify the cost.
Did you ever run linux with ext2 (not ext3 or ext4) on a desktop computer in the early days? It used to fail spectacularly on unclean shutdowns. IIRC linux used to delay/buffer writes up to a minute or so. (Maybe it still does?)
The comparison remains valid, even if it only tells you that the people not earning the big bucks in one place make more than their counterparts in another.
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Someone else posted about a very poor taste joke about Grenfell leading to an arrest and people being put in custody, for real.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/05/police-appea...

That's mad. People who commit ABH, hit-and-runs, deal class A drugs and such don't always get taken in to custody -- we regularly have reports (in our local news) of people convicted who commit further crimes because they're out on warrant/bail or only got a warning/fine -- making a bad joke that doesn't physically harm anyone isn't an offense that should lead to imprisonment. You tell them how insensitive it is, then you ignore them and leave them to wallow in their own excrement.

>A spokesperson for the campaign group Justice4Grenfell said the video had “caused great alarm and distress” //

Why did they watch it? They could probably say the same about Towering Inferno, or an episode of Game of Thrones or myriad other things. It's all getting ridiculous.
What is blockchain actually useful for?
An FPGA is a physical circuit that can be reconfigured via software on the fly, it should be possible to run an evolutive algorithm by running every iteration on actual hardware... so it should also be possible for the algorithm to optimize for amplifying some local interference.
The arXiv does serve as an online preprint vetting community, and it would provide you a venue in which to publicly disseminate your work. (You might need either a university-affiliated email or an endorsement, though -- not sure exactly.)

But it's not really a good place to attract attention. Dozens of papers are published there every day, and the more unconventional ones tend to get ignored (unless they're authored by people who are already famous).

Another thing you might do is attend a scientific conference. If possible, see if there's some small, not-terribly-prestigious conference in a related subject, somewhere within driving distance. In my subject, number theory, these are quite common; they're typically held over weekends and are largely designed to give graduate students a venue in which to speak.

Book a hotel, go to all the talks, ask questions. If you strike up conversations with people, you might can ask if you can run your theory by them.
I spent most of the day trying to get access to the new Instagram API when all I wanted to do was getting some data for my ML model.
Sounds annoying. I'm assuming you weren't satisfied with the answer (even if implied) of "it's not our priority right now"?
> What's new is not very dry conditions or fires. What's new is the California fire management over the past century or so.

Sounds like you don't accept that climate change is exacerbating these fires. As others have noted, average and historical rainfall isn't a direct indication of fire risk.

London [1] has the same annual rainfall (23") as San Francisco, but they have very different fire risks.

Timing of the rainfall and other weather events matters a lot more when it comes to particular events - and the ever later onset of rains in CA is a big factor.

Even then, the fire management practices you point out are in part a response to increasing populations near fire-prone areas. People expect fires near their homes to be suppressed. Unless we stop building homes in such areas, or build fireproof homes, that demand isn't going to go away.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_London

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco#Climate
The BBC is acting awfully high and mighty about this, given that similar results could have happened in the UK.
This board has been extremely versatile and super affordable for a long time now. I'm really happy they made this new version. I think it's sleek nature will absolutely come in handy in some of the projects that I am going to be working on in the future. Great job!
I've suddenly started hearing the assertion that forest management is incompetent. But I've not really heard any details as to what is actually wrong and what should be done. Can you please elaborate?
It's weird that the default behavior when appending a template is to not clone it requiring an additional clone call

>>template.content.cloneNode(true)
If you have enough background in distributed systems to choose a consensus algorithm you are definitely capable of implementing one yourself and even invent your own. It's not a bad idea either, most existing consensus-based systems are absolute garbage. People just hugely overestimate how much those algorithms matter for production systems.

EDIT: Note, I'm not talking about blockchains and byzantine fault tolerance, but in context of Paxos/Raft.
it work fine just use magisk to pass safety net and in Hide panel check google pay. i'm using it everyday
This is pretty spot on - I hate to be the one arguing for "less thought" on a subject/concept etc. But I've definitely gone too far too often .. so I try to stop earlier more often now - for feedback (and implementation as you suggest) knowing I can always go deeper.

I find that asking one's self this question is helpful : "Are the barriers to believe for concept ________ technical or something else?"

If the answer is that there aren't deep technical barriers - its a good time to stop and start collecting feedback.
It can work out well and it can fail. While experiments like Japan's fifth generation computer may have failed to produce commercial results, it still trained a generation of very able scientists. Without the significant spending of the US government, the Silicon Valley would not exist in its current form either.

During a time when software and hardware applications had no large market, the military and the government where essentially the only large consumers of the American businesses that are now hundreds of billions of dollars large.

Entrepreneurs in the US love this renegade story of somehow being less dependent on government support than anyone else on the planet, but it's revisionist history. A lot of American commercial success in IT has its roots in government funded programs and consumption.
While I whole heartedly agree with your logic and opinions on this: have you met many adults? They are awful at critical thinking. It strikes me that this is indeed a good chunk of why health/medicine is hard. Some people literally can’t be trusted to evaluate complex decisions effectively.
So you end up with highly regulated practices, and those people who have the mental capacity are left out.
Don't know about the rest of the points, but I looked into several job opportunities at Berlin, and was shocked by how low their offered salaries were. That was the end of my interest in looking for jobs at Berlin...

I live in Denmark currently, and can attest that to some extent, salaries cannot be compared because of different social structures & expenses. Getting paid 50% of what I used to make in the US did not mean standard of living went to 50%. But, for a comp.engineer, US wins out by a huge margin in terms of money.
Not really. The tech used in noise-cancelling headphones is called ANC (active noise cancellation). It eliminates the noise coming to your ear from your surrounding environment.

In contrast, Krisp eliminates the noise going from your environment to the call participants and vice versa.
An app that would turn an Apple Watch into a U2F 2FA device would be great. It would also need to work as such a device for logins to Google and AWS.
Microsoft has ported OpenSSH, at least on Windows 10 you can install it as a Windows feature, or pull it from GitHub https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/releases
I agree. A lot of the devs I know who had non tech jobs have a better appreciation for business decisions and management than do those that just went into a dev job.
I hate these, because they are always wrong.

Once a measurement is used for success, it stops being a good measurement.

Javascript, namely node, has a metric ton of libraries, and you think, iseven/isodd/... so god knows how many libraries are out there, not actual projects.

I will say, that their metric about growth of the number of contributors is a much better metric for 'best language.'
No, I’m pointing to people that bring some evidence rather that Jew! to the table. I leave it up to the people of HN to decode for themselves.
Makes me appreciate my own country where religion is a minority and offending people is a legitimate art form.